savbell
Bug (with idea for fix): no evdev devices if user is not in `input`
Bug behavior: no key presses were being detected (but there were no errors, so at first sight, it looked like everything should work)
Root cause: evdev.list_devices returned an empty list, because my user didn't have the right permissions. I solved it by adding my user to the input group (with sudo usermod -aG input your-username-here), as suggested here on stackoverflow, and restarting my computer. To diagnose if this is the problem, you only need to run python -c "import evdev; print(evdev.list_devices())".
IMO a nice way to fix this would be to check in the code if evdev.list_devices returns an empty list (probably here: https://github.com/savbell/whisper-writer/blob/370333b115417b03bf51c9f5bffd6578ecf6986e/src/key_listener.py#L445), and if so, raise an exception with a possible solution (adding the user). Maybe we should also add this step to the installation instructions for Linux users.
If you like, I'd be happy to create a PR with this fix :)
