pynput sending the keys to current working window, causing unwanted file changes or input for the shell.

[guangyu-shi]

When the input_focus got changed(working on another window), pynput will send the keys to the current working window, which can cause the unwanted input for the shel ,or changed files; so I need to detect the input_focus change before sending the keys; hope pynput send the keys only to the concerned process by default or let users choose which window to receive the keys.

I've overrided _send_key at my_Controller; but '\n' is still sent to the active window; so I need to listen to FocusChangeMask; yet can't detect the tab changing of xfce4-terminal.

import Xlib.display
from Xlib import X, Xatom

disp = Xlib.display.Display()
root = disp.screen().root

NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW = disp.intern_atom('_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW')

window_id = root.get_full_property(NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW, Xlib.X.AnyPropertyType).value[0]
window = disp.create_resource_object('window', window_id)
window.change_attributes(event_mask=Xlib.X.PropertyChangeMask)
window.change_attributes(event_mask=Xlib.X.FocusChangeMask)

while True:

    window_name = window.get_wm_name()

    print('window_name =', window_name)

    event = disp.next_event()

    print('event =', event)

My host is running xubuntu linux. The keyboard is Xorg. pynput : 1.7.3 Linux : 4.15.0-136-generic

Bliss, --gs

[moses-palmer]

Thank you for your report, and sorry for this very late reply.

I think you will find it very difficult to be selective about what controls to target when using the keyboard controller. A long time ago, controls on windows would often correspond to X windows, but nowadays the widget toolkits only use Xorg as a dumb canvas; this is probably why you cannot detect tab changes in xfce4-terminal.

Targeting specific windows is out of scope for this library, so I will close this issue, but if you find a good solution, do not hesitate to post it here so that other might find it!