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When running the example as root I receive all the events but when running as user, I didn't receive anything

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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) said : 		#1

Which example?

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Think-Free (think-free) said : 		#2

http://people.canonical.com/~stephenwebb/geis-v2-api/geis2_8c-example.html

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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) said : 		#3

Ah, the default if there is no filter on window_id specified is to subscribe to event on the X11 root window. The X11 server will not let just anyone grab all input events on all windows (that's a pretty clear security violation), so to run that example code yes, you would need elevated privileges.

If you filter on a window_id, that problem would go away. Adding the code in the example to allow a window_id to be specified on the command line, with all the attendant parsing and error detection, distracted from the purpose.

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Think-Free (think-free) said : 		#4

OK ! Understood !
Thanks !

(PS : Documentation needs improvments ;) )

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