Support for wlroots based compositors

[imhemish]

Besides GNOME and KDE, wlroots (wlr) is the only big thing on wayland right now on which a lot of compositors are based (like sway, hyprland, river). If wlroots is supported, all these compositors would get supported. Any plans for the support for wlr?

[imhemish]

The events may be read through `libinput debug-events'

[Wazzaps]

The main reason I only support GNOME (at the moment!) is the ability to disable the touchpad while the app is active using the dconf setting.
If such a setting exists for wlroots (or for a specific compositor), I can implement it.
As always, PRs welcome :)

(P.S. I read the events straight through /dev/input/..., I believe that's more portable than libinput)

[imhemish]

If such a setting exists for wlroots (or for a specific compositor), I can implement it.

Ways to disable and enable touchpad events are available in specific compositors via just commands (eg swaymsg for sway, hyprctl for hyprland)

As always, PR's are welcome

I skimmed through the code, I would have to read it again to find what is actually happening, but can you confirm that I just need to edit the function which disables and enables touchpad events by adding if statements to recognise compositors?

[Wazzaps]

Yea sorry for the mess 😅 It was a rushed weekend project initially
I would probably rename lock_pointer_wayland to lock_pointer_gnome_wayland, create a wrapper lock_pointer that has all the logic in one place, then create new lock_pointer_* functions.
We also probably want a helpful check for any new compositor (e.g.

fingerpaint/fingerpaint/fingerpaint.py

Lines 303 to 322 in 47ab453

	if os.environ['XDG_SESSION_TYPE'] == 'wayland':
	try:
	sp.check_output(['dconf', 'help'])
	except sp.CalledProcessError:
	print('`dconf` fails to run, it\'s required in Wayland based desktop environments', file=sys.stderr)
	exit(1)
	except FileNotFoundError:
	print('`dconf` binary not installed, install it with your package manager (Called `dconf-cli` on Ubuntu, or `dconf` on Arch)', file=sys.stderr)
	print('It\'s required for Wayland based desktop environments.', file=sys.stderr)
	exit(1)
	else:
	try:
	sp.check_output(['xinput', '--version'])
	except sp.CalledProcessError:
	print('`xinput` fails to run, it\'s required in X11 based desktop environments', file=sys.stderr)
	exit(1)
	except FileNotFoundError:
	print('`xinput` binary not installed, install it with your package manager (Called `xinput` on Ubuntu, or `xorg-xinput` on Arch)', file=sys.stderr)
	print('It\'s required for X11 based desktop environments.', file=sys.stderr)
	exit(1)

) so maybe that can be refactored out into function too.

Thanks for the initiative :)

[imhemish]

ok let me implement compositor recognition functions and lock_pointer_hyprland (because i am running hyprland) (i would later also add functionality of lock_pointer_sway because a lot of people are using sway, and i may still have sway configuration lying around which i used to use)