[PLUG] Catching mouse events in a character app

["K.S. Bhaskar via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I have a character-mode app running in a terminal in an X session (I'm currently working in lxterminal in an LXDE session, but it could be any terminal emulator under any Linux window manager). xev seems to give me the mouse events, but requires the Xwindow id to be specified. There seems to be no easy way to capture the Xwindow id of a terminal session.

Is there a reliable way for a program running in an X terminal session to get the Xwindow id? Or better yet, is there a straightforward way to get mouse events that happen in that application's window?

Searches on DuckDuckGo have not turned up any useful links – the reliable solutions mentioned involve convoluted computation, and the easy solutions are not reliable.

Thank you very much.

Regards

– Bhaskar

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