Bug 85631

Summary: Add support for keysym events
Product: Wayland Reporter: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Component: libinputAssignee: Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium CC: peter.hutterer, samuel.thibault
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Peter Hutterer 2014-10-30 04:41:50 UTC 
Some devices, most notably some braille keyboards/chorded keyboards, don't provide keycodes but keysyms (virtual keyboards too, but they're outside libinput's scope). The conversion from input to keysyms can be device-specific.

We need an API that forwards keysyms as-is so they can be handled and passed on in the compositor (likely through wl_text).
Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2016-05-06 05:25:13 UTC 
Closing this, we'll investigate this when we have actionable requests from users for this type of feature.

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