wayland client with native bindings

[totaam]

Following up #2243, we will need some form of native bindings to:

• query the keyboard layout
• access the clipboard
  etc..

[totaam]

According to libxkbcommon quick guide: If we are a Wayland client, the compositor gives us a string complete with a keymap.
Not sure where, no attributes in the GTK.EventKey, or in its GdkWaylandDevice attribute..

More keyboard related tickets: #1049, #856

[totaam]

2019-07-25 15:48:47: mviereck commented

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Keyboard:
On systems with systemd the output of localectl status might be a good guess.
The Wayland compositor might still be configured different, but I assume most systems will have the same keyboard configuration on tty as on the desktop.
On my german system I get the same valid output on tty, in X and in Wayland:

$ localectl status
   System Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: de
       X11 Model: pc105

[totaam]

On systems with systemd the output of localectl status might be a good guess.

Thanks, added this as fallback in r23321.

[totaam]

So many things won't work as well under wayland...
#3614 (comment)

[totaam]

Many years on, and things still don't work as well under Wayland as they do under X11.
(missing features, opinionated behaviour, etc)

I don't agree with all the points made here, but some have merit:
Wayland, where are we in 2024? Any good for being the default?