Wayland prerequisites checklist

[TolikPylypchuk]

Before KeyboardSwitch can work on Wayland natively, I need to check the following things:

• AvaloniaUI supports Wayland
• libuiohook supports Wayland
• TextCopy supports Wayland
• I have a least the slightest idea about manipulating keyboard layouts with Wayland

[TolikPylypchuk]

No need for TextCopy supporting Wayland since I've reimplemented clipboard interop directly in Keyboard Switch. Now I will need to implement it for Wayland as well, but that seems manageable - I've copied the X11 implementation from Avalonia, I will most probably do the same for Wayland.

[nativescriptdev-ux]

From what I understand , Wayland is problematic both for clipboard & detect layouts & change layouts by code.
They pretty much blocked everything there
Can it be solved ?

[TolikPylypchuk]

Regarding the clipboard, there's the wl-clipboard utility for Wayland, so this is 100% possible.

Regarding keyboard layouts, I don't know, I haven't investigated this aspect yet.

[nativescriptdev-ux]

@TolikPylypchuk keyboard layout for getting the mapping you mean ?

[TolikPylypchuk]

Yes, getting the current layout, the list of all layouts, and changing layouts programmatically - I haven't yet investigated any of that.