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Support for wlroots based compositors
Besides GNOME and KDE, wlroots (wlr) is the only big thing on wayland right now on which a lot of compositors are based (like sway, hyprland, river). If wlroots is supported, all these compositors would get supported. Any plans for the support for wlr?
The events may be read through `libinput debug-events'
The main reason I only support GNOME (at the moment!) is the ability to disable the touchpad while the app is active using the dconf setting. If such a setting exists for wlroots (or for a specific compositor), I can implement it. As always, PRs welcome :)
(P.S. I read the events straight through /dev/input/...
, I believe that's more portable than libinput
)
If such a setting exists for wlroots (or for a specific compositor), I can implement it.
Ways to disable and enable touchpad events are available in specific compositors via just commands (eg swaymsg for sway, hyprctl for hyprland)
As always, PR's are welcome
I skimmed through the code, I would have to read it again to find what is actually happening, but can you confirm that I just need to edit the function which disables and enables touchpad events by adding if statements to recognise compositors?
Yea sorry for the mess :sweat_smile: It was a rushed weekend project initially
I would probably rename lock_pointer_wayland
to lock_pointer_gnome_wayland
, create a wrapper lock_pointer
that has all the logic in one place, then create new lock_pointer_*
functions.
We also probably want a helpful check for any new compositor (e.g. https://github.com/Wazzaps/fingerpaint/blob/47ab45304ec306a9608510c896f0239db69055cb/fingerpaint/fingerpaint.py#L303-L322) so maybe that can be refactored out into function too.
Thanks for the initiative :)
ok let me implement compositor recognition functions and lock_pointer_hyprland (because i am running hyprland) (i would later also add functionality of lock_pointer_sway because a lot of people are using sway, and i may still have sway configuration lying around which i used to use)