Input capture?

[ozmodeuz]

Hi all; I'm using niri on nixos, and trying to use deskflow to share my keyboard/mouse with another device. When I try to run the deskflow server it fails with the error 'failed to initialize input capture session' and my googling indicates this might be because an input capture portal isn't available.

My niri-portals.conf file contains the following:

[preferred]
default=gnome;gtk;
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Access=gtk;
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Secret=gnome-keyring;

I'm guessing this means it'll fall back to using the gnome portal for protocols not listed (and I think the gnome portal supports input capture) but I'm not sure.

Would you expect input capture to work with niri? If so, any advice on getting it working?

[YaLTeR]

Hello, it is in fact not implemented yet. The gnome portal may support input capture, but it still needs to be implemented in niri.

[ozmodeuz]

Aha! Okay no problem, and thanks for the prompt response. I guess you can consider this a feature request then haha

[YaLTeR]

Made an issue: #823