New mouse_keys variable from x11.cc, similar to xset q | sed -n '/.*Mouse Keys: \(.*\) /s//\1/p'

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I am currently using

xset q | sed -n '/.*Mouse Keys: \(.*\) /s//\1/p'

one line script to print out X11 Mouse Keys (Wikipedia article). My one liner uses Conky's exec. Conky suggest the better approach of C/C++. I could try converting it to a C execve, or similar. But a better approach is, probably, X11 C code. I am not familiar with X11. But Conky already has related C++ code. x11.cc. It could be a related existing variable, namely keyboard_layout, is directly derived from that X11 code. x11.cc : print_keyboard_layout. By the output of xset -q I guess that other parts from the bottom of the x11.cc file are very close to obtaining the Mouse Keys status. Perhaps someone better acquainted can come up with a new mouse_keys Conky variable?

One reason for me looking for such a variable is it being a moving target. By that I mean the Mouse Keys state can sometimes changed, usually from on to off, unexpectedly. I still not sure about the circumstances for those changes. I suspect important applications, such as Mozilla Firefox and its derivatives, do that. There can possibly be other applications. Since it is a toggling state, when one tries to turn it on, while it is already on, he could achieve exactly the opposite. Rather confusing. A visual, or otherwise, indication for the Mouse Keys state helps.