How to change default behavior of Xephyr for capturing and releasing keyboard/mouse?
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When running Xephyr, its window title says "ctrl-shift grabs mouse and keyboard". I am using ctrl-shift (left ctrl - left shift) as keyboard layout switching hotkeys and it interferes with Xephyr, when I press them, just the keyboard layout is switched, Xephyr doesn't grab mouse and keyboard. I str…
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It is hard wired in the code: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/kdrive/ephyr/hostx.c#n1002 You have to patch it: There you can use any other key code you like. The available key codes are defined in
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