Keyboard events

[Caellian]

In the same manner the BUILD_MOUSE_EVENTS adds support, do you think keyboard support (BUILD_KEYBOARD_EVENTS) would be beneficial to add to conky?

It's fairly straightforward to add to X11 now that mouse events are more or less worked out.

The way I envision this feature to work is through adding another lua hook to the script for handling keyboard events. Conky would only receive keyboard events while the pointer is over it (regardless of whether WM/DE window focus follows cursor).

I have figured out how to add both mouse and keyboard events to Wayland backend as well:

• Mouse events work with minimal effort
• Keyboard events depend on mouse enter & leave events and toggle between KeyboardInteractivity::Exclusive and KeyboardInteractivity::None with: zwlr_layer_surface_v1::set_keyboard_interactivity.
  • This is a necessary workaround because some WMs don't support KeyboardInteractivity::OnDemand (hyprland, others?)