Ubuntu: Changing which windows accept background input?

[Vitalius]

Hi,

I would like to know if anyone knows of a way to set a windows to accept input even if it's not in focus. AKA, in the background.
 

So say I have Firefox open. I'm typing in Firefox. But I also have Text Editor open and it's also getting the same input. So if I type www.linustechtips.com in Firefox's URL bar, it will also type www.linustechtips.com in Text Editor. 

I was wondering if Unity or some other Windows Manager could do that. 

Thanks,
Vitalius.

[RedSphyxis]

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first of all doing it in unity would be counterproductive(well not really. you'll just get better results with lesser file sizes using simple programming w/o using a game engine)

 

anyways dude I think what you're looking for is a keylogger program. I made one back then when I was ~11 but it was really simple not many functions and a horrible GUI interface but it was functional enough to fool my parents into changing the password. Where I can easily grab it using the keylogger.

 

here are some free ones. https://www.raymond.cc/blog/free-and-simple-keylogger-to-monitor-keystrokes-in-windows/some of these have really extensive options like scheduling and turning on keylogging whenever a specific program(s) is/are running

 

edit: oh crap forgot that this was for ubuntu, pretty sure some of those have linux compatible versions http://askubuntu.com/questions/14180/how-can-i-install-a-keylogger-software

[Vitalius]

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That example was just to show what I wanted: Where input is registered by a window in the background. 

I actually want to do this with some gaming stuff, so that two people can play games on one computer at the same time (two different games). A keylogger wouldn't help with that, unless I don't understand how that works. 

Thanks though.

[RedSphyxis]

That example was just to show what I wanted: Where input is registered by a window in the background. 

I actually want to do this with some gaming stuff, so that two people can play games on one computer at the same time (two different games). A keylogger wouldn't help with that, unless I don't understand how that works. 

Thanks though.

now that's complicated. hmm as far as I know windows doesn't allow that and I never encountered such a program before.