[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] New option to disable key events

[Vlad Seryakov]

On Jul 1, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Vlad Seryakov wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 06:03:05PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
>>>> I would rename the option to -x11-nokeyinput as it applies only to x11
>>>> based vos (and the console will still accept key input), but otherwise
>>>> it seems ok.
>>>> 
>>>> Reimar, is the patch ok to apply?
>>> 
>>> Uh, -input nodefault-bindings
>>> was added for exactly that purpose...
>> 
>> This is different, with this option X11 events will be accepted but silently swallowed instead of going to the parent window.
> 
> Hm, contrary to Windows that is only a minor issue though, the application
> can just manually chose to receive events from that Window and everything
> is fine again.
> Maybe there's even a way to make X pass the events to some application
> and still pass them on to the parent Window?

None without a lot of coding, simple option makes life easier for mplayer and external application