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@@ -7,16 +7,16 @@ Goal of this project is to be an open-source replacement for proprietary tools l
Focus lies on performance and a clean, manageable implementation that can easily be expanded to support additional backends like e.g. Android, iOS, ... .
***blazingly fast™*** and ***stable™***, because it's written in rust.
***blazingly fast™*** because it's written in rust.
For an alternative (with slightly different goals) you may check out [Input Leap](https://github.com/input-leap).
## OS Support
The following table shows support for Event receiving and event Emitting
on different operating systems:
The following table shows support for input emulation (to emulate events received from other clients) and
input capture (to send events *to* other clients) on different operating systems:
| Backend | Event Receiving | Event Emitting |
| Backend | input emulation | input capture |
|---------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Wayland (wlroots) | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
| Wayland (KDE) | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_check_mark: |
@@ -130,8 +130,7 @@ Where `left` can be either `left`, `right`, `top` or `bottom`.
- [ ] Clipboard support
- [x] Graphical frontend (gtk?)
- [ ] *Encryption*
- [ ] Gnome Shell Extension (layer shell is not supported)
- [ ] respect xdg-config-home for config file location.
- [x] respect xdg-config-home for config file location.
## Protocol
Currently *all* mouse and keyboard events are sent via **UDP** for performance reasons.
@@ -229,11 +228,6 @@ both wlroots based compositors and KDE.
Gnome unfortunately does not support this protocol
and [likely won't ever support it](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/1141).
So there is currently no way of doing this in Wayland, aside from a custom Gnome-Shell
extension, which is not a very elegant solution.
This is to be looked into in the future.
~In order for layershell surfaces to be able to lock the pointer using the pointer\_constraints protocol [this patch](https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/7178) needs to be applied to sway.~
(this works natively on sway versions >= 1.8)