libei 0.4 is now available. libei is a library to send
Emulated Input (EI) to a matching Emulated Input Server (EIS) which can
receive those events with libeis, also part of this project.
libei uses GitLab releases, for tarballs please see:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libei/-/releases/0.4
Notable changes since 0.3:
- ei_setup_backend_portal() was removed. The portal it connected to never
really existed and all the efforts since have gone into supporting libei
connections through the RemoteDesktop and the InputCapture portals. Note
that these changes are not yet merged into upstream xdg-desktop-portal.
- a new library "liboeffis" takes the place of the above. It is a helper
library to connect to the RemoteDesktop portal via DBus with a minimal API
and retrieve the EIS socket.
This library is intended to be used by tools that cannot easily talk DBus
themselves (this includes Xwayland).
- the libei/libeis log handlers have a new API which makes handling log
messages a bit simpler.
- version exchange between client/server make it possible (in the future) to
have multiple supported protocol versions.
This is a development snapshot and neither API nor ABI should be considered
stable. Anyone using libei or libeis must keep both in sync, there are no
accommodations made for libei/libeis from different versions and the wire
protocol may break at any time.
Please see the API documentation here:
https://libinput.pages.freedesktop.org/libei/
The git shortlog is below:
Olivier Fourdan (7):
README: Xwayland is a Wayland client
Fix absolute events filtering
util: Add block/release signals API
util: Protect system calls against signals
util: Add a wrapper for dup() and pipe2()
ei: Use the signal protected wrappers
liboeffis: protect from interrupted system calls
Peter Hutterer (44):
Add a comment that reserved properties cannot be set by the API
reis: fix return code handling in allow_capabilities
reis: drop unnecessary variable rc
proto: reformat according to the Google Style Guide
proto: specify that Configure messages must be sent before connection
eis: capabilities can only be reduced
proto: document ConfigureCapabilities
proto: split the Configure messages out a bit
proto: document that only one ConfigureName is possible
Remove a double semicolon
util: only do flag_* operations if the bit fits
test: rename the ei AUTOCONNECT behavior to HANDLE_CONNECT
test: set up libreis support in eierpecken
eis: send out the list of existing properties on connect
eis: add eis_client_has_capability
test: add a few tests for reis
eis: default the client to only the capabilities we know about
tools/demo-client: stop means stop sending events
tools/demo-client: keep a ref to the ptr/kbd/abs devices
tools: print property values in the demo client and server
proto: split the client's SetProperty from the server event
log: allocate the log message on demand
log: enforce single logical messages only
Drop the trailing newline from the log messages
log: abstract the auxiliary information into a log message context
tools: drop help for obsolete --sender option from the eis-demo-server
Add a version macro for grepable version numbers
proto: add a version exchange prior to connect
proto: allow the client to set the protocol version
proto: add versioned Configure transactions
Fix some logging linebreak issues
proto: separate pre-connection properties into ConfigureProperty
doc: fix two references to function calls
doc: fix a doxygen warning about a wrong parameter name
doc: fix a comment in util-mem.h
meson.build: fix an indentation issue
CI: purge all references to the master branch
CI: bump to Fedora 37
CI: bump to latest ci-templates
README: swap to RemoteDesktop over the nonexistent EmulatedInput portal
Purge the portal code
liboeffis is a wrapper library for the RemoteDesktop communication
util: change the signal handler to a context-manager like macro
libei 0.4
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