Todays reading was Xevents and resources.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XWindow-Us...oreconfig.html
bits about SDL fullscreen grab
http://bda.ath.cx/blog/projects/
(and some older dicsussion
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=37377&page=2) and
http://old.nabble.com/About-focusing...d33170401.html
more SDL info for me to begin to understand at least enough to begin the rework.
http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/SDL_SysWMInfo and friends.
also some nice ideas on LD_preloading SDL
http://www.jspenguin.org/software/sdlhack/
fiddling around with the native keyboard.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=28
I'll have more of a prod around tomorrow when I am more happy with the grabbing.
: )