Hi Zarif, On Fri, 16 May 2025 at 11:54, Zarif Atai <z.a...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Dear subscribers of wayland-devel, > > As a Vim motions enthusiast, it bothers me that there are too many > situations where I'm forced to use a pointer input device (e.g. a mouse) to > perform an action. I looked around to see if anyone has developed a tool > that would allow me to move or teleport the pointer to a specific location > on the screen and perform a click action using keyboard keystrokes. I did > not find it, so I decided to create it myself. I have recently started to > learn the programming language Rust. I thought this would be a great > opportunity to improve my Rust skills, too. > > As someone new to both Wayland and Rust, I dove into the Wayland > documentation and related Rust crates. Thus far, I have not found any > documentation on how to send synthetic input (i.e. mouse movements) to the > display server as a Wayland client. According to some LLMs, synthetic input > is even heavily restricted in Wayland due to security reasons, making my > quest to create this tool impossible. > > I would like to ask for your input (no pun intended) on this. Is it true > what the LLMs are saying? If so, are there alternative ways to develop such > a tool? > Some would argue that this does not really belong to Wayland (the protocols), yet that does not mean this is impossible, I would suggest looking into libei: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libei That, however, requires that the Wayland compositor supports the relevant portal API and libei itself, of course, which is the case of KDE and GNOME (and possibly others, but I do not know all of the compositors). HTH Cheers Olivier
