Wayland support about inputbot HOT 4 OPEN

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you go through the kernel by using uinput then you wouldn't need to worry about X11/Wayland/etc...?

EDIT: there's a library for this: https://github.com/meh/rust-uinput
EDIT 2: Apparently there are issues with multiuser systems and keylogger concerns? (this is what a good friend of mine has said)

However, wayland doesn't give a specific way to do this, so you have to use uinput if you want to do it with wayland, it seems.

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@KitLing yes I think you are right. The best path might be to use uinput for generating events and using evdev for reading events to create hotkeys. Evdev has rust bindings as well https://github.com/myfreeweb/evdev .

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Hotkeys should now work on Wayland since I made InputBot use Libinput for event listening. I wanted to use the uinput crate for simulating events but the crate fails to build.

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Most functions of InputBot no longer rely on X11 APIs and should work on Wayland.

The parts left to port are the is_pressed() function for keys and the move_abs() function for the mouse cursor.

The is_pressed function can be ported by keeping track of all key states internally and simply returning their state instead of using XQueryKeymap.

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