Sending keyboard events?

Jasper St. Pierre jstpierre at mecheye.net
Mon Jul 7 13:49:50 PDT 2014


It is not possible to send keyboard events to arbitrary other windows or
clients. You have no knowledge that these clients or windows actually
exist, even.


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Pouar <thepouar at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 07/07/2014 03:33 PM, Pouar wrote:
>
> On X I have a program that maps joystick buttons to keystrokes that works
> by sending keystroke events using XTest. Considering that there are virtual
> keyboards available for Wayland I assume there's a way to accomplish the
> same thing for Wayland. I'd like to know what that is so people can port
> these programs to Wayland.
> --
> Pouar
>
> If you're wondering why I posted this to wayland-devel it's because I'm
> trying to find out if "one can be developed for Wayland", not "is there one
> for Wayland" because I know there isn't.
> --
> Pouar
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  Jasper
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