wayland support

[drahnr]

From the source I see X11 support (which is great!) but I'd love to use it with wayland - if possible - too. Are there any plans? (developing https://github.com/drahnr/oregano this, is exactly what I need for complete testing coverage using CI)

[msanders]

Hi, sorry for the delay - no plans currently but definitely open to contributions!

[joske]

It seems this is just not possible under wayland (applications are not allowed to move the mouse cursor)

[rektide]

there are a variety of wayland protocols that might be useful here:

• org.freedesktop.portal.RemoteDesktop is a dbus-based protocol allow screen-casting to get the screen and remote desktop to manage input devices. website docs. dbus docs.
• zwp_input_method is a wayland protocol for text input. zwp_linux_dmabuf for capturing screen.
• there are a variety of wlroots protocols in wayland that target capabilities here. wlr-virtual-pointer, which has a longstanding issue for being upstreamed as virtual-pointer (and see also virtual-keyboard). either wlr_screencopy_unstable or (potentially lower overhead) wlr_export_dmabuf could be used for reading screen.

also worth mentioning libei, which is a library for emulated input, and is under active development.

a number of these wayland protocols are available in wayland-rs.