Keyboard issues w/Orca screen reader

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Wed Feb 24 23:03:19 UTC 2021


Hello,

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.

Samuel


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