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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: application hooking
From:       Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer () gmx ! de>
Date:       2003-07-31 15:17:08
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On Thursday 31 July 2003 15:56, Tom Clancy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I’m not sure if this is the correct email list or not (perhaps I need to be
> asking this in an X-Windows mailing list), but I was wondering...  Like
> MS-Windows, is there a way to hook a dll (shared library) into a windowed
> application in order to spy on its message queue?  For example, is there a
> Spy++-like application for KDE?

[This is indeed off-topic ;-) ]

You are looking for "xev".
This is part of every X distribution and can show events
another X window is receiving with "xev -id <winid>". To get the <winid> for
a given window, use "xwininfo" and click on the window of interest.

Josef



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