Some questions about Wayland

[Renaud Hebert]

Thanks for your answer, see my reply below.

Le 11 avril 2012 10:16, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> a écrit :
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:51:22 +0200
> Renaud Hebert <renozyx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In the comments on an article about "the state of Wayland" at lwn
>> (http://lwn.net/Articles/491237/), two interesting questions were
>> raised:
>> 1- would gridmgr (an application which place the windows into
>> predefined grid layouts http://nickbp.com/gridmgr/ ) work on Wayland?
>> 2- same question for Gromit
>> (http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/gromit/) an application which allow
>> you to "draw" on your screen.
>>
>> For (1), I think that this would require an extension specific to the
>> compositor used (Weston, KDE's planned compositor, etc).
>
> Yes, because that is a window manager's job and requires knowledge of
> all windows on screen. Most likely it would be implemented in the
> server and only controlled by a special client.
>
> In X any application can walk over your window manager and fight with
> it, in Wayland such is not possible and clients cannot know about other
> clients' windows, and not even about absolute window positions.
>
>> For (2), I don't know: I think that this would require some form of
>> input redirection (there would be a fullscreen transparent windows but
>> when not in drawing mode it shouldn't receive the mouse events) and I
>> don't think that Wayland has this feature?
>
> That's easy: Wayland surfaces have an input region, and that region can
> be empty. Only input region receives input events, regardless of (well,
> clipped to, really) the surface size. So you just make your maximised
> transparent window and set the input region to empty, and all pointer
> and touch events will bypass your window. When you want to draw, make
> that input region non-empty. You probably need another window to click
> at for that. ;-)

This seems to work nicely for the mouse events (either set the input
region to empty or to full screen), but what about the keyboard
events?