xev and mouse click events

Pinguino99 · 01-16-2022, 02:52 AM

xev does not show mouse buttonpress events when using a -id, is there any workaround or is this a bug?

when I use the command xev -id NumIdWin the mouse buttonpress events are not shown

only mouse PropertyNotify is shown

pan64 · 01-16-2022, 04:44 AM

without details hard to say anything, but I guess it is not a bug. buttonpress events are handled probably by another window (parent?).

frankbell · 01-16-2022, 08:54 PM

You might want to take a look at evdev.

Pinguino99 · 01-18-2022, 06:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

without details hard to say anything, but I guess it is not a bug. buttonpress events are handled probably by another window (parent?).

you can take the test
command to get firefox id

Code:

$ wmctrl -lx

Code:

$ xev -id IdFirefox -event mouse

the only output i have is about mouse movement

output

Code:

MotionNotify event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0xc0002b,
    root 0x78a, subw 0x0, time 735427, (41,584), root:(63,628),
    state 0x0, is_hint 0, same_screen YES

MotionNotify event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0xc0002b,
    root 0x78a, subw 0x0, time 735428, (39,584), root:(61,628),
    state 0x0, is_hint 0, same_screen YES

is there any solution? how to get ButtonPress