hickory_resolver's TokioResolver only consults /etc/resolv.conf and
queries upstream DNS servers — which means it can't see /etc/hosts,
mDNS (Avahi/Bonjour), NetBIOS, or anything else in the system's full
name-resolution stack. On a typical home LAN there's no DNS server
that knows about peer machine names, so users had to fall back to
typing IP addresses, which broke the moment they moved their setup
to a different network.
Swap to tokio::net::lookup_host, which calls getaddrinfo (or
GetAddrInfoEx on Windows). That walks /etc/nsswitch.conf on Linux
(picking up Avahi-resolved .local names, /etc/hosts, and DNS), uses
Bonjour for .local on macOS, and the full Windows resolver on
Windows. A Bonjour hostname like "JKMBP-M4-Max.local" now resolves
on every modern network without explicit configuration; the user
can carry their two machines between LANs and the connection still
finds them.
Drop the hickory-resolver dependency entirely — it's no longer
needed. ServiceError::Dns also goes away; lookup failures surface as
io::Error which is already covered by ServiceError::Io.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ship Lan Mouse on macOS as an accessory app (no Dock icon, no main
window on launch) with a status-bar item for show/quit. Closing the
window hides it instead of quitting so the menu bar stays the primary
surface.
- build-aux/macos-lsui-element.plist: LSUIElement=true plus
NSInputMonitoringUsageDescription and NSAppleEventsUsageDescription
(merged into Info.plist via cargo-bundle's osx_info_plist_exts).
- lan-mouse-gtk/src/macos_status_item.rs: NSStatusItem setup via raw
objc_msgSend FFI. Loads a bundled 22pt PNG as a template image so
it auto-tints for light/dark menu bars.
- scripts/makeicns.sh: emit Contents/Resources/menubar-template.png
from the existing SVG.
- scripts/copy-macos-dylib.sh: flatten cargo-bundle's preserved
target/ subdir under Resources so NSBundle pathForResource: finds
the template image.
- lan-mouse-gtk/src/lib.rs: register the new modules, set up a
Cmd+Q-wired quit action, configure bundle env vars (schemas,
XDG_DATA_DIRS, GTK_DATA_PREFIX) when running from inside the .app,
and filter the known upstream Gtk theme-parser warning spam.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
*breaking change*
this changes the configuration syntax, allowing for an unlimited amount of configured clients.
Also a first step towards enabling a "save config" feature.
* Input capture and emulation can now be disabled and will prompt the user to enable again.
* Improved error handling to deliver more useful error messages
