Questions tagged [keyboard-grab]

A client can actively grab control of the keyboard, and key events will be sent to that client rather than the client the events would normally have been sent to.

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Difference between QWidget::grabKeyboard() and the grab done by QMenu

I noticed that while a QMenu is open, my key bindings stop working ( xbindkeys ), also screensavers can't start and report a "Can't grab keyboard" error. This doesn't happen with other QWidgets that use QWidget::grabKeyboard(). Does QMenu grab the…
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