Use wtype instead of ydotool on wayland

[andresilva]

wtype eases the setup since it doesn't require having a background daemon running like ydotool.

#50

[andresilva]

@msin32 can you test whether this works for you? I couldn't get paste to work on Hyprland with either ydotool or wtype (it works in a terminal, just not through emacs-everywhere).

[andresilva]

Not sure if this will work on KDE. I think by default KDE binds Shift+Insert to pasting from clipboard buffer rather than primary (which is not standard). Try removing this is if it doesn't work and let me know.

[msin32]

@msin32 can you test whether this works for you? I couldn't get paste to work on Hyprland with either ydotool or wtype (it works in a terminal, just not through emacs-everywhere).

See my comment here: #50 (comment), not sure what broke but I will test your change soon

[msin32]

It doesn't work, one issue seems to be with id:

| | 3 <- emacs-everywhere--app-info-linux: #s(emacs-everywhere-app :id 0 :class "konsole" :title "~ : fish — Konsole <3>" :geometry (54 0 1081 1200))

The id is 0. However, when I change :id (string-to-number window-id) to id: window-id in the --app-info-linux function I get the correct window id.
I believe I had this change in my PR as well. However, even with this fix, it still isn't pasting and I'm not sure if it focuses the window either.
Looking at the traces between my working version, it seems to be getting app-info correctly, I'm not sure why it won't work
@tecosaur

[tecosaur]

I believe I had this change in my PR as well. However, even with this fix, it still isn't pasting and I'm not sure if it focuses the window either. Looking at the traces between my working version, it seems to be getting app-info correctly, I'm not sure why it won't work.

@msin32 I tried to copy the changes/details of your PR while also refactoring it, but unfortunately it seems that something was lost in the refactoring 😕. Hopefully we can resolve this with a little more trial-and-error debugging...

[tecosaur]

I've pushed a few commits, and on my end at least the current setup is working with KDE on wayland.

[msin32]

works for me too

[msin32]

I just remembered, I tried using wtype before but it isn't supported on KDE plasma:

~> wtype -M Shift Insert -m Shift
Compositor does not support the virtual keyboard protocol

you could add a paste function specific to wlroots/supported WMs

[andresilva]

I'll close this then since only KDE/GNOME support is planned.