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feat: allow handle virtual keyboard input by WM#1803

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@Bot-wxt1221 Bot-wxt1221 commented Aug 16, 2025

feat: allow handle virtual keyboard input by WM

Fix #1440

This pr has something to do with WM.

Tested on niri-wm/niri#2246

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Very interested in this feature as it would allow me to use remote desktop tools (i.e. wayvnc) on niri

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Bot-wxt1221 commented Aug 20, 2025

@LunarEclipse363 You may also be interested in #1801

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None could review this?

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@kchibisov Any suggestion?

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I wonder if anyone could push forward this PR.

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@Bot-wxt1221 Bot-wxt1221 force-pushed the virtual_keyboard branch 3 times, most recently from c1266f0 to 305ba98 Compare December 31, 2025 14:45
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With our current ime grab implementation this looks fine, the ime grab is not perfect in its current form.

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CI/Clippy is not happy

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Last small nitpick that Clippy did not catch, and we are good to go.
Thanks!

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Very excited to see this moving forward, thanks everyone for working on it 😄

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@PolyMeilex PolyMeilex merged commit 2e00119 into Smithay:master Jan 9, 2026
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Revert "feat: allow handle virtual keyboard input by WM (#1803)"

This reverts commit 2e00119.
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wvkbd (and other virtual keyboards) can't trigger compositor bindings

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