[tomboy-list] How does the global keyboard shortcut work?

[Sandy Armstrong]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Hamlet D'Arcy <hamletdrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a happy Tomboy user and really like the global Ubuntu keyboard
> shortcut I can use to create a new note.
>
> My question is about how technically the global key listener works. I
> got the TomBoy source code and see tomboykeybinding.c, but I have no
> experience with native Ubuntu code, so it isn't much help to me.

It's the XGrabKey part that actually does the keybinding.

If you'd explain a bit more about what you actually want to do, we
could probably help.  You can certainly use libtomboy in your project;
it's very popular for other projects to use it when they need to
perform global keybindings, and it's released under the very liberal
MIT/X11 license.

You can see an example of its use in managed code by looking at
Tomboy's XKeybinder.cs.

Sandy