This is what we did in Record to remove extra buttons when a child hasn't moved the mouse in a while... (<a href="http://mediamods.com/public-svn/camera-activity/tags/54/ui.py">http://mediamods.com/public-svn/camera-activity/tags/54/ui.py</a>)  But this has a very low sample rate: This code might benefit from improvements.  Suggestions? <pre> def resetWidgetFadeTimer( self ): #only show the clutter when the mouse moves <a href="http://self.mx">self.mx</a> = -1 self.my = -1 self.hideWidgetsTimer = time.time() if (self.hiddenWidgets): self.showWidgets() self.hiddenWidgets = False #remove, then add self.doMouseListener( False ) if (self.HIDE_WIDGET_TIMEOUT_ID != 0): gobject.source_remove( self.HIDE_WIDGET_TIMEOUT_ID ) self.HIDE_WIDGET_TIMEOUT_ID = gobject.timeout_add( 500, self._mouseMightaMovedCb ) def doMouseListener( self, listen ): if (listen): self.resetWidgetFadeTimer() else: if (self.HIDE_WIDGET_TIMEOUT_ID != None): if (self.HIDE_WIDGET_TIMEOUT_ID != 0): gobject.source_remove( self.HIDE_WIDGET_TIMEOUT_ID )</pre> <pre> def _mouseMightaMovedCb( self ): x, y = self.ca.get_pointer() passedTime = 0 if (x != <a href="http://self.mx">self.mx</a> or y != self.my): self.hideWidgetsTimer = time.time() if (self.hiddenWidgets): self.showWidgets() self.hiddenWidgets = False else: passedTime = time.time() - self.hideWidgetsTimer if (self.ca.m.RECORDING): self.hideWidgetsTimer = time.time() passedTime = 0 if (passedTime >= 3): if (not self.hiddenWidgets): if (self.mouseInWidget(x,y)): self.hideWidgetsTimer = time.time() elif (self.RECD_INFO_ON): self.hideWidgetsTimer = time.time() elif (self.UPDATE_TIMER_ID != 0): self.hideWidgetsTimer = time.time() else: self.hideWidgets() self.hiddenWidgets = True <a href="http://self.mx">self.mx</a> = x self.my = y return True</pre> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <<a href="mailto:bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu">bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know how to capture all mouse events?  I am trying to get all mouse button up/down events, and maybe even all motion events.  I have tried using gdk to listen to all events on the root window, but it doesn't seem to capture mouse events. It seems like the right way might be to use Xlib, or to hook into the window manager, or the X driver, or just listen to /dev/input/mouse0.  I don't know much about any of these.  What would you do? - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> iEYEARECAAYFAkhArB8ACgkQUJT6e6HFtqSRSQCfatqMr9Ksdn204nEtaH89dV8r kp8AnAxkPIq/bqnUJENnBze/GFMSgkXt =IdMQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar@lists.laptop.org">Sugar@lists.laptop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar</a> </blockquote></div>