Future Proof Global Keybindings

[bluss]

In the era of wayland, we need a different way than keybinder to allow global keyboard shortcuts.

• Allow using Kupfer without keybinder installed (since v311)
• Allow to summon kupfer from window manager shortcuts (Just use kupfer exectuable)
• Generalize global keybinding code for primary Ctrl + Space shortcut
• Generalize so that triggers can use it too (Arbitrary amount of keybindings needed)

[bluss]

We're in the same boat as Guake/guake/issues/914

[bluss]

I need to know more about your environment. Window manager, does some program already have ctrl + space already bound?

[bluss]

It's supposed to turn off Keybinder in wayland (so that it doesn't segfault). Maybe that has a false positive. (It looks like it's this).

[simonbcn]

Gnome Shell on Wayland (Mutter). I was executing it on Xorg but with some update it has activated Wayland again. 😕

[bluss]

314 is the first kupfer release that supports Wayland properly. There will be bugs :D

[seltzered]

regarding "Allow to summon kupfer from window manager shortcuts (Just use kupfer exectuable)" - this allows summoning kupfer, but I think it should also be a 'toggle' action - that is invoking the same shortcut to summon kupfer should also close the kupfer window. This would be in-line with most other quazi-modal tools like Quicksilver, macOS Spotlight, Ubuntu System Search, etc.

Using kupfer 0+v320-1 on ubuntu 21.04 (wayland) where I configured ctrl+space to work via the standard settings for ubuntu keyboard shortcuts (keybinder reports "Error [kupfer.core.plugins]: Could not import plugin 'kupfer.plugin.triggers': Dependency 'Keybinder' is not available"). Right now, in order to exit kupfer a user has to shift toward hitting the escape key if they had just invoked kupfer by the ctrl+space.