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@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ If you want to use another wayland native dmenu backend not mentioned here, plea [issue](https://github.com/ayushnix/tessen/issues) or [raise a PR](https://github.com/ayushnix/tessen/pulls). -`tessen` is written to work only on wayland compositors such as [sway](https://swaywm.org/). If -you'd rather use [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) to copy your password-store data on both +`tessen` is written to work only on wayland wlroots compositors such as [sway](https://swaywm.org/). +If you'd rather use [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) to copy your password-store data on both xorg/x11 and wayland, check out [pass-tessen](https://github.com/ayushnix/pass-tessen). ### Why use `tessen`? @@ -143,6 +143,21 @@ make a real mess. This is why `tessen` also provides an option to define custom Firefox. You'll need at least version [v0.4](https://github.com/atx/wtype/releases/tag/v0.4), or later, of wtype for autotyping to work on Chromium. I haven't tested any other web browsers. +It seems like `wtype` uses the +[virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1](https://wayland.app/protocols/virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1) protocol +to emulate a virtual keyboard and [KDE +supports](https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/issues/74#note_369803) the +[input-method-unstable-v2](https://wayland.app/protocols/input-method-unstable-v1) protocol. GNOME +seems to be doing its own thing with [libie](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1974). +There's also [ydotool](https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool) which requires that users access +`/dev/uinput`, which is restricted to the root user. + +I don't like this sort of fragmentation myself but if `tessen` ends up working on wlroots based +compositors and on KDE, I'd be satisfied with that. It looks like `wtype` [doesn't +use](https://github.com/atx/wtype/issues/5) the `input-method` protocol yet which restricts +autotyping to wlroots based compositors for now. While using `/dev/uinput` sounds like an attractive +option, I won't add support for it due to security concerns. + ## What does `tessen` mean? [Here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_fan) you go. |