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From what I understand, the barrier devs are planning to add Wayland support via libei [1]. I guess this should be relevant to you too?

1. https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2023-Ma...

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It's exciting, but for both key listening and grabbing, the evdev route is still required, so unless I'm mistaken, this doesn't help us on its own.

It also doesn't help with window management: "One example is xdotool which does window focus and modifier mangling (see below). Window focus notification is not available to a pure libei client and would have to be obtained or handled on a separate channel, e.g. X or Wayland. Having said that, a Wayland client does not usually have acess to query or modifiy the window focus."

Edit: libei supports a "receiver" mode too. Perhaps it'll be useful after all!

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