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Is there a way to grab the keyboard from X (like XGrabKey())?

April 26, 2017grab keyboard

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Is there a way to grab the keyboard from X (like XGrabKey())?

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XGrabKey grabs the input so that no other application (including the window manager) can get any keystrokes or insert them with XSendEvent. This is sometimes done for entering passwords or so to make it more difficult to sniff the keystrokes or manipulate them.