I. Problem (what I hope to achieve):

1. timed key events (ex. rapid Space fires machine-gun, slower Space fires cannon)
2. total keyboard capture (ex. Meta brings up MyGameOptions instead of Desktop Environment launcher like it does system wide)
3. KeyPress and KeyRelease events (ex. modiffiers A_KeyPress && B_KeyPress && SpaceKeyRelease => FireDeathStar )

II. Background (what I kindda understood so far):

• I'm at hello word level so... be gentle.
• I’m on linux, wayland, KDE – not interested on other platforms for now
• crossterm and termion are close but not there all the way for my use case - pls correct me if I'm wrong
• Games can do it full screen, Qemu can do it in a window, so I should be able to do it in a terminal emulator window also, right?
• I’m not doing a game (the examples are just that, examples) so struggling to understand a game engine library would be too much for me
• Thanks in advance to anyone helping but pls be aware: any response will be followed by more, even dumber questions

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