InputScope under wayland?

[jave]

I'm switching from i3wm to sway, and InputScope doesnt seem to work, no keyboard events seem to be monitored. Is InputScope verified to work under wayland (sway in my case)?

[jave]

On further reading, it seems keyloggers arent really straightforward on wayland.

[jave]

this seems to list keycodes logs under wayland: sudo libinput debug-events --show-keycodes maybe this could be interfaced to inputscope somehow.

[suurjaak]

Haven't experimented with Wayland myself, and at the moment I am not able to.

Looking at the documentation for pynput, the library that InputScope uses for events, Wayland support is iffy indeed (https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/limitations.html#linux and https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#forcing-a-specific-backend).

Can you try running the program as root? For Wayland, it needs the following environment:

export PYNPUT_BACKEND_KEYBOARD=uinput

[jave]

$ xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
01:31:47-joakim@framework:~/roles/Tools/InputScope
$ sudo DISPLAY=:0 PYTHONPATH=/home/joakim/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages PYNPUT_BACKEND_KEYBOARD=uinput PYNPUT_BACKEND_MOUSE=dummy  ~/.local/bin/inputscope

** (inputscope:722274): WARNING **: 01:31:50.749: AT-SPI: Could not obtain desktop path or name


** (inputscope:722274): WARNING **: 01:31:50.750: atk-bridge: GetRegisteredEvents returned message with unknown signature

** (inputscope:722274): WARNING **: 01:31:50.750: atk-bridge: get_device_events_reply: unknown signature
Exception in thread Thread-4:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/threading.py", line 1075, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/home/joakim/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pynput/_util/__init__.py", line 211, in run
    self._run()
  File "/home/joakim/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pynput/_util/__init__.py", line 260, in _run
    raise NotImplementedError()
NotImplementedError

[jave]

[jave]

nothing much seems to be working...

[suurjaak]

What happens if you try without the DISPLAY=:0 in front of command?

[jave]

then i get some exception and it dies. let me try so you can see

[jave]

sudo DISPLAY= PYTHONPATH=/home/joakim/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages PYNPUT_BACKEND_KEYBOARD=uinput PYNPUT_BACKEND_MOUSE=dummy ~/.local/bin/inputscope Unable to access the X Display, is $DISPLAY set properly?

[jave]

btw for my use-case (figuring out which keys I use so I can build a zsa voyager keyboard layout) I dont need mouse, so thats why I use PYNPUT_BACKEND_MOUSE=dummy

[suurjaak]

I will try to get native Linux installed somewhere at some point, and look into this further.

Unfortunately this may take a while. Leaving this issue open until then.