spiegel-keyman/linux/keyman-system-service
Eberhard Beilharz bfc3aa3456
refactor(linux): move dbus defines to common include
This got missed in #14372.

Fixes: #13281
Follow-up-of: #14372
Test-bot: skip
2025-07-25 19:39:50 +02:00
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man maint(linux): fix lintian warnings 2025-05-13 20:07:32 +02:00
resources fix(linux): configurable path in .service file when using basu 2025-05-19 09:46:41 +02:00
src refactor(linux): move dbus defines to common include 2025-07-25 19:39:50 +02:00
tests refactor(linux): move defines to common header files 2025-07-17 19:41:26 +02:00
.gitignore maint(linux): fix lintian warnings 2025-05-13 20:07:32 +02:00
build.sh maint(linux): add --no-werror option to not report warnings as errors 2025-05-20 09:01:22 +02:00
meson.build refactor(linux): move defines to common header files 2025-07-17 19:41:26 +02:00
README.md docs(core): Document how to build Core on Linux 2023-07-24 19:54:17 +02:00

keyman-system-service

A DBus system service that allows to access /dev/input/* devices to toggle capslock and perform other keyboard related actions. This is required when running under Wayland, but also used with X11.

See https://0pointer.net/blog/the-new-sd-bus-api-of-systemd.html, https://stackoverflow.com/a/44281937, https://github.com/chiehmin/gdbus_test/blob/master/server.c, https://aleksander.es/data/GNOMEASIA2014%20-%20Introduction%20to%20DBus.pdf.

Notes

  • If we need to limit access to the interface to only Keyman, we can use polkit which allows to add a rule with an action that checks for the program.

  • to see the log file

    journalctl -f -u systemd-keyman
    
  • to monitor method calls

    sudo busctl monitor com.keyman.SystemService1