Not working with wayland

[dadav]

Describe the bug

It's not working with kitty 0.29.2 /wayland.

If I enable verbose mode, I can't see any keys pressed in the kitty terminal. When I use e.g. urxvt, it works.

To reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install daktilo with pacman
2. Start daktilo
3. Start kitty terminal
4. Type something into the terminal
5. Hear nothing

Expected behavior

Hearing some typing sounds.

Software information

• Operating system: Arch GNU/Linux x86_64 6.5.4-arch2-1
• Terminal: kitty 0.29.2
• Display-Server: wayland

[dadav]

Probably rdev is the reason. See https://docs.rs/rdev/latest/rdev/#linux. Wayland is not supported.

[orhun]

Yup, exactly.

Noted this in README.md in 064c8ed

[orhun]

I will look into possible solutions to support Wayland soon.

[mochaaP]

It's possible to implement a bridge listening to libinput events in a privileged context (e.g. using pkexec) and send it to the main process in the user session.

https://github.com/AlynxZhou/showmethekey/tree/master/showmethekey-cli

[Xenira]

Any progress on this? I am currently migrating from x11 to wayland.

Might be able to look into this.

[orhun]

Not really, I haven't had the chance to look into it so feel free!

[orhun]

Btw, out of curiosity which WM/DE are you going to use on Wayland?

[Xenira]

Used some KDE Plasma but in the progress of switching to Hyprland.

[Xenira]

Btw there is currently this Narsil/rdev#116 issue. Describing the same solution as @mochaaP did.

[orhun]

Then I'd say it makes more sense to contribute this feature to rdev directly.

[ibrahimkettaneh]

For BuckleSpring, you can run it using the command sudo -E -u root buckle to keep the current user's environment intact. Have you managed to get rdev working on your Wayland system? Currently, I am utilising Hyprland and BuckleSpring concurrently, and I find the typewriter sound quite charming.
I would also be interested in trying out Daktlilo. Any assistance would be highly appreciated.