Hi, I’m the “greg”. AMA??

But also, this is Rafal’s project. I’m just a huge huge fan of his..! See:

https://sit.sonnet.io/

https://untested.sonnet.io/

And https://www.potato.horse/ !

>To my knowledge, this can be fixed by requesting the OS-level accessibility permissions, which would require a separate user interaction.

Does this imply that running Gregglogger _doesn't_ require granting accessibility input monitoring permission? On osx there's at least 4 ways to monitor inputs I think (iokit level, cgeventap, carbon event monitoring, cocoa global event monitor), I'd really expect all of them to require the input monitoring permission.

Fun read, thanks.

I also wrote a 5ish line python script that instead of logging keys, presses them. I used it to avoid idle detection in a game a few years ago. Similarly to you, I found it somewhat disconcerting how easy it was. This was on windows though.

Linux, especially wayland, is making keylogging and keypress manipulation really hard. This is hitting me in one of my passions: retro gaming.

I WANNA DO MACROS, but I haven't found any good solution for macros in linux (think dragon punch in Street Fighter or some other complex HID input sequence that teenies can master but oldass me can't)

And I understand why, it's a massive security problem, giving view powers to the keystream, to say nothing of manipulation.

I hope that retroarch eventually adds it, but they punt on it currently I think for the exact reasons I have problems with it.

Does anyone know any good solutions out there for X.org and Wayland?

I’ve now spent about half an hour watching videos about canned fish, must say it’s a fascinating topic