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Asked by Think-Free on 2014-09-23

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?

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.

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

OK ! Understood !
Thanks !

(PS : Documentation needs improvments ;) )

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