From: 'Gerd Hoffmann ' <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: gustavo@noronha.eti.br
Cc: 'Peter Maydell ' <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, 'Markus Armbruster ' <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ui/cocoa: capture all keys and combos when mouse is grabbed
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:05:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210430080550.twoujiljpcskvcla@sirius.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210429234705.83206-2-gustavo@noronha.eti.br>
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 08:47:04PM -0300, gustavo@noronha.eti.br wrote:
> From: Gustavo Noronha Silva <gustavo@noronha.eti.br>
>
> Applications such as Gnome may use Alt-Tab and Super-Tab for different
> purposes, some use Ctrl-arrows so we want to allow qemu to handle
> everything when it captures the mouse/keyboard.
>
> However, Mac OS handles some combos like Command-Tab and Ctrl-arrows
> at an earlier part of the event handling chain, not letting qemu see it.
>
> We add a global Event Tap that allows qemu to see all events when the
> mouse is grabbed. Note that this requires additional permissions.
>
> See:
>
> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/1454426-cgeventtapcreate?language=objc#discussion
> https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mh32356/mac
Looks all sensible to me, I'd like to have the opinion from the MacOS
experts for this one though.
thanks,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-30 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-29 23:47 [PATCH 0/2] cocoa: keyboard quality of life gustavo
2021-04-29 23:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] ui/cocoa: capture all keys and combos when mouse is grabbed gustavo
2021-04-30 7:20 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-04-30 10:02 ` Gustavo Noronha Silva
2021-04-30 10:10 ` Gustavo Noronha Silva
2021-04-30 10:58 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-04-30 12:02 ` Gustavo Noronha Silva
2021-04-30 14:36 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-04-30 10:54 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-04-30 8:05 ` 'Gerd Hoffmann ' [this message]
2021-04-30 9:43 ` Gustavo Noronha Silva
2021-04-29 23:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] ui/cocoa: add option to swap Option and Command, enable by default gustavo
2021-04-30 7:25 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-04-30 8:04 ` 'Gerd Hoffmann '
2021-04-30 10:36 ` Gustavo Noronha Silva
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-03-06 11:11 [PATCH 0/2] cocoa: keyboard quality of life Akihiko Odaki
2022-03-06 11:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] ui/cocoa: capture all keys and combos when mouse is grabbed Akihiko Odaki
2022-03-06 11:28 ` BALATON Zoltan
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