Sway has two knobs to control idling:
- seat idle_inhibit: when the seat is active (ie. not idle), this
extends the active state. When the seat is idle, this is
ignored.
- seat idle_wake: when the seat is idle, this wakes up the seat.
When the seat is active, this is ignored.
The motivation for the deprecation is two-fold:
- The concept of "seat idle state" is ill-defined. Each idle-notify-v1
client will pass a different idle timeout. With the old logic, a
seat was declared idle if and only if all idle-notify-v1 timeouts have
expired. However, if only a portion of the timeouts have expired,
then some clients would wake up, and the rest would stay active.
This is inconsistent with the definition of idle_inhibit/idle_wake:
idle_inhibit was used for clients which are waking up.
- It never worked properly with the new idle-notify-v1 protocol
and no-one noticed. Only the legacy KDE idle protocol is taken
into account, but that protocol is not used anymore.
Support the new dwtp (disable while trackpointing) option introduced in
libinput 1.21, allowing users to control whether the trackpoint (like
those in Thinkpads, but not only) should be disabled while using the
keyboard/touchpad.
See: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/731
Add a command to influence keyboard shortcuts inhibitors. In its current
form it can be used to activate, deactivate or toggle an existing
inhibitor on the surface currently receiving input. This can be used to
define an escape shortcut such as:
bindsym --inhibited $mod+Escape seat - shortcuts_inhibitor deactivate
It also allows the user to configure a per-seat default of whether
keyboard inhibitors are honoured by default (the default) or not. Using
the activate/toggle command they can then enable the lingering inhibitor
at a later time of their choosing.
As a side effect this allows to specifically address a named seat for
actions as well, whatever use-case that might serve.
Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@gmx.de>
This removes `seat <seat> keyboard_grouping keymap` and replaces it with
`seat <seat> keyboard_grouping smart`. The smart keyboard grouping will
group based on both the keymap and repeat info. The reasoning for this
is that deciding what the repeat info should be for a group is either
arbitrary or non-deterministic when multiple keyboards in the group have
repeat info configured (unless somehow exposed to the user in a
reproducible uniquely identifiable fashion).
This adds seat configuration options which can be used to configure what
events affect the idle behavior of sway.
An example use-case is mobile devices: you would remove touch from the
list of idle_wake events. This allows the phone to stay on while you're
actively using it, but doesn't wake from idle on touch events while it's
sleeping in your pocket.
A wlr_keyboard_group allows for multiple keyboard devices to be
combined into one logical keyboard. This is useful for keyboards that
are split into multiple input devices despite appearing as one physical
keyboard in the user's mind.
This adds support for wlr_keyboard_groups to sway. There are two
keyboard groupings currently supported, which can be set on a per-seat
basis. The first keyboard grouping is none, which disables all grouping
and provides no functional change. The second is keymap, which groups
the keyboard devices in the seat by their keymap. With this grouping,
the effective layout and repeat info is also synced across keyboard
devices in the seat. Device specific bindings will still be executed as
normal, but everything else related to key and modifier events will be
handled by the keyboard group's keyboard.
Adds a new commend "xkb_file", which constructs the internal
xkb_keymap from a xkb file rather than an RMLVO configuration.
This allows greater flexibility when specifying xkb configurations.
An xkb file can be dumped with the xkbcomp program.
New 'seat <name> xcursor_theme <theme> [<size>]' command that
configures the default xcursor theme.
The default seat's xcursor theme is also propagated to XWayland, and
exported through the XCURSOR_THEME and XCURSOR_SIZE environment
variables. This is done every time the default seat's configuration is
changed.
Add support for configurations that apply to a type of inputs
(i.e. natural scrolling on all touchpads). A type config is
differentiated by a `type:` prefix followed by the type it
corresponds to.
When new devices appear, the device config is merged on top of its
type config (if it exists). New type configs are applied on top of
existing configs.
This documents the wildcard character for both inputs and seats. There
is also a tip added on trying the wildcard to verify a setting if the
identifier does not appear to be working.
This allows for `-` (hyphen) to be used as an alias for the current seat
while sway is running. This alias was chosen since it is unlikely to
interfere with any desirable seat identifier
This changes the `pointer_constraint` command to be a subcommand of seat
to allow for per-seat settings. The current implementation that is not a
seat subcommand will only operate on the current seat and will segfault
in the config due to `config->handler_context.seat` only being set at
runtime.
This also allows for the wildcard identifier to be used to alter the
pointer constraint settings on all seats and allows for the setting to
be merged with the rest of the seat config.
This extends `input <identifier> events toggle` to allow for an optional
list of modes to toggle through. If no event modes are listed, all
supported modes are cycled through (current behavior). If event modes
are listed, they will be cycled through, defaulting to the first mode
listed when the current mode is not in the list. This modes listed will
also not be checked to see if the device supports them and may fail.
This modifies `input_cmd_scroll_button` to utilize the mouse button
helper `get_mouse_button` when parsing the button. x11 axis buttons are
not supported with this command and `CMD_INVALID` will be returned, but
all other x11 buttons, button event names, and button event codes should
be working
This modifies `seat_cmd_cursor` to utilize `get_mouse_button` when
parsing mouse buttons for the `press` and `release` operations. All x11
buttons, button event names, and button event codes are supported.
For x11 axis buttons, `dispatch_cursor_axis` is used instead of
`dispatch_cursor_button`. However the `press`/`release` state is ignored
and the either axis event is processed. This also removes support for
`left` and `right` in favor of `BTN_LEFT` and `BTN_RIGHT`.
Implements toggling input events during runtime. This will not attempt
to toggle to a mode that is not supported by the device.
When toggling the wildcard input, the device specific input configs are
altered. Each device will cycle one supported mode.
