[Haskell-cafe] How to create a background program that monitors input (linux)

[Travis Cardwell]

On 2014年04月29日 23:55, EatsKittens wrote:
> Essentially, I want to create a program that is simply ran in the
> background, not in a terminal, that monitors keypresses and mouse presses
> and takes certain actions on specific keypresses. Where to start?

Perhaps you can get inspiration from XMonad [1]:

http://code.haskell.org/xmonad/XMonad/Main.hsc

s/^grabKeys ::/

Cheers,

Travis

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[1] http://xmonad.org/