wev: a Wayland analogue to X11's xev

Simon Ser contact at emersion.fr
Mon Aug 12 17:58:20 UTC 2019


On Sunday, August 11, 2019 11:20 AM, Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com> wrote:
> A lazy Sunday project. Opens an XDG toplevel and prints interesting
> events. Does other useful things like maintaining an XKB state and
> printing key events in the form of keysyms and UTF-8 strings, dumping
> keymaps to a file, and filtering out events you aren't interested in.
> For sway at least, I imagine that this will solve questions like "what
> key name do I put in my config file to bind to <obscure key>?"
>
> I hope someone finds it useful!

I think weston-eventdemo has more or less the same goal. Maybe we could
have weston-eventdemo also maintain an XKB state?


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