Keyboard issues w/Orca screen reader

[Simon Ser]

On Thursday, February 25th, 2021 at 12:03 AM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> Simon Ser, le mer. 24 févr. 2021 22:57:02 +0000, a ecrit:
> > As prior art, I can think of wshowkeys [1] which displays which keys are being
> > pressed on screen. It uses a helper suid process, opens /dev/input/whatever,
> > drops privileges, and relays key presses to the main process.
> >
> > [1]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wshowkeys
>
> This would be very fragile: we do not know what keyboards wayland is
> actually reading.

Wayland is very likely reading from all keyboards.

Some cases where this doesn't hold:

- The user has explicitly disabled a keyboard.
- The user has a multi-seat setup, and has keyboards assigned to
  different logical seats.