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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Window watching programs
- In-Reply-To: rosenthl@faith.mcc.com's message of Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:31:27 GMT
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- Doug> == Doug Rosenthal <rosenthl@faith.mcc.com>
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- Doug> Will use of the xterm "secure keyboard" option take care of the
- Doug> situation Scott describes, at least for a given window?
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- Almost. It will prevent grabbing the actual key events, but apparently
- there's still a loophole available by asking for keydown and keyup
- events and putting those together...
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- Use xauth, folks.
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- Christopher K. Davis | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
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- System Administrator, EFF | Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
- +1 617 864 0665 [CKD1] | --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>
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