Sending keyboard events?

[Jasper St. Pierre]

Yes, it's builtin to the compositor.


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Pouar <thepouar at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 07/07/2014 03:49 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Then how does the virtual keyboard work. Is it built into the compositor
> or something?
> --
> Pouar
>



-- 
  Jasper
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