Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux?

Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux? by R0b0t1 on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:25PM (#27188640)

In regards to your first point, I am saying that Wayland does not do what it sets out to do and the proper way of doing it is a much larger problem than what Wayland can address. It is possibly better to avoid breaking everyone's stuff if you're just going to need to shortly do it again to fix the things Wayland does not and can not fix.

For your latter point, Wayland is much different. In Windows there are ways to inject behavior into other programs or the UI elements. This exists so you can change the UI. Wayland's idea of security is very much against that, at least in the way it can be done on Windows/X11.

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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux? by zxzax on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:38PM (#27188769)

I don't know what you mean you'll need to break it again, this one particular hole is already plugged in Wayland. That won't cause additional breakage, and you'll still want to be plugging those additional holes like ptrace anyway.

Input injection is being worked on in a different library, that brings a standard API that's supposed to work the same across Wayland, X11, and with sandboxed contexts: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libei

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