Plover for Wayland

Try to provide a nix derivation for plover that work on Wayland.

By following the discussion openstenoproject/plover#1050 - Not working [...] on Wayland [...]. I've tried to provide plover with 2 proposed flavor wtype and dotool with the latest version of plover v4 (currently v4.0.0-rc.2).

For both flavor you will need to enable manually the plugin (navigate to Settings -> Plugin) or by editing the field Plugins.enabled_extensions in ~/.config/plover/plover.cfg.

In the end only the dotool flavor work on my system (nixos).

With dotool

nix run .#plover-dotool

With wtype

nix run .#plover-wtype

Testing both flavor

I've provided a nix dev shell that provide both flavor with plover to try them out.

First you will need to enter in the development shell with:

nix develop

Then execute plover, at that point, you will need to enable one of the plugins.

Sources

• lgcl/nuv plover derivation providing the building block for this flake.
• halbGefressen/plover-output-dotool providing the plugin plover-output-dotool.
• svenkeidel/plover-wtype-output providing the plugin plover-wtype-output.