Thanks for your response! I also failed trying to do what you tried, even with a SDL version that I configured to only have x11 support, and no OS X native window manager support. I have no idea how DOSBox manages to use the native windows while I build everything without cocoa support, but maybe …

Nevermind btw, found out what I needed to know above.

Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but the code in the OP doesn't work for me. The main problem seems to be that the sed command does nothing for me. For example, my MakeFile has the following two lines: SDL_CONFIG = /usr/local/bin/sdl-config SDL_LIBS = -L/usr/local/lib -lSDLmain -lSDL -Wl,- …

I'm trying to communicate between the X11 window manager and DOSBox, and so far I have no luck. What I'm trying to do is exactly the same as this guy http://richard.to/programming/wolfenstein-3d-ai-part-3.html, that is send keystrokes and get screen data from X11. His works shows that this is …