Re: [PLUG] Catching mouse events in a character app

[Gary Duzan via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

   If your terminal is mouse-aware, ncurses can grab mouse events:
https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/mouse.html

                                   Gary


=> 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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