problem with the command xinput

[cosmoff]

Hello everybody,

I am using the command :

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xinput --test 9 | grep "button press"

where 9 represents the mouse,
and it works very well on Ubuntu but on Debian the "button press" are recognized only when I click on the bar of my terminal where I run the command. but the position of the mouse is properly recognized on all the screen with

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xinput --test 9 

Do you have an idea of the problem

thank you

[llivv]

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"button press   1"

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"button press   2"

[cosmoff]

no it does not work.
In fact even with just

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xinput --test 9

the terminal return only the motion event. The press events do not work and I do not know why

[llivv]

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xinput --test 9 | grep "button press"

"button press" are recognized only when I click on the bar of my terminal where I run the command.
thank you

When you click on the terminal title bar and it sends

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button press  3

to the terminal cut that message and paste it into your grep pattern.

[cosmoff]

I want retrieving the clicks on all the screen not just on the terminal title bar. It works perfectly with ubuntu but not debian.

[cosmoff]

Is it a problem from a lib or a conf file ?