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by csdreamer7 1017 days ago
> and I believe its maintainer who says that there are issues with Wayland which make support infeasible.

* Where did they say that?

* What are the issues?

I am trying to narrow down exactly what the issues are. Too much of the conversation is 'something' is broken in Wayland because of 'something'.

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https://artemis.sh/2022/09/18/wayland-from-an-x-apologist.ht...

talks about it at length.

It seems the main things missing for Talon are:

- input emulation, doable via uinput but not great - standard way to query the list of windows and active focus - for dwell-click support, you need to be able to know if the user is moving their mouse or clicking so you can cancel your autoclick