D29272: Add support to keyboard shortcuts inhibitor

Benjamin Port <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.kwin
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bport added a comment.


  In D29272#659598 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D29272#659598>, @davidedmundson wrote:
  
  >   "The Wayland compositor is however under no obligation to disable
  >    all of its shortcuts, and may keep some special key combo for its own
  >    use, including but not limited to one allowing the user to forcibly
  >    restore normal keyboard events routing in the case of an unwilling
  >    client. The compositor may also use the same key combo to reactivate
  >    an existing shortcut inhibitor that was previously deactivated on
  >    user request."
  >   
  >
  > Do we think it's important to have this when this lands or just deal with it if it becomes an issue?
  >
  > I think it should be relatively easy, just an earlier filter that calls:
  >  waylandServer()->keyboardShortcutsInhibitManager()->getShortcutsInhibitor(surface, seat)->setActive(false);
  
  
  Yes harder part will be to find the shortcut
  
  Are we ok to let Meta key opening menu even if inhibitor is active ?

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  R108 KWin

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D29272

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