Bug 81071

Summary:	Generating keyboard events
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	thepouar
Component:	wayland	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	e.a.b.piel, peter.hutterer, thepouar
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description thepouar 2014-07-09 00:46:28 UTC

In X There's a program I use called AntiMicro for mapping keystrokes to joystick buttons. It works by sending fake keystrokes using XTest. This obviously won't work with Wayland and I was hoping you guys would implement something similar so a similar program could be developed. It's one of the biggest thing keeping me to X.

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2014-07-22 00:37:16 UTC

Moving this over to wayland, this is something that needs to be handled either through something resembling XTest, or fully in userspace.

Comment 2 Eric Piel 2014-08-26 14:27:37 UTC

Note that in Linux nowadays you can just use uinput to simulate user inputs. For example have a look at this: http://tjjr.fi/sw/python-uinput/ .

A whole new XTest for wayland is maybe avoidable?

Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2014-08-26 22:04:56 UTC

uinput requires root rights, which is its biggest drawback compared to XTest.

Comment 4 Daniel Stone 2018-06-04 08:16:42 UTC

That being said, we'd vastly prefer a compositor mechanism than allowing arbitrary clients to snoop on and inject events, since the latter is a security issue.

Comment 5 GitLab Migration User 2018-06-08 23:50:16 UTC

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