16 Events

Events refer to input events from X that the window manager receives, either for the root window, the window frames it creates, or grabbed from the client windows themselves. Each event induced by the mouse or keyboard has a Lisp representation.

• Event Representation: Objects versus string names
• Event Modifiers: Meta, Alt, Buttons
• Event Actions: Keys and Clicks
• Event Matching
• Synthetic Events: Creating events that seem real