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I’m looking to record keystrokes and mouse positions while I’m in a browser window on various websites, but I’m not sure how to do this outside the SWING (or some other GUI) window.
How can I record keystrokes when a different application’s window is the one active?
The support you need is not exposed by Java. It is a fairly simple matter to do this if you have access to the RECORD extension in X, or Win32 on Windows.
Here is a Python project that implements support for both of these platforms: pykeylogger.