On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:49:08 +0100, "R.Wieser" 
declaimed the following:

>Dennis,
>
>> Which leads back to ability to read the keyboard "state" (modifier
>> keys) from within you application -- without waiting for a key-down/
>> -up event.
>
>Yep.  Which doesn't seem possible under Linux. Alas (for me).

 I think my very first post on this thread linked to a wxPython call
that does just that... But it does mean your application would have to be
built using wxPython rather than Tkinter... And you still need to have some
sort of window/framework which gains focus...


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