Key combinations (and mouse and controller buttons) get two new actions:
- steam_menu: Open Steam menu / close dashboard (steam/ft-steam menu).
- command:CMD: run CMD with sh -c, as the relay's service, with layout/,
float/ and steam/ on its PATH. Input Settings offers it for key
combinations as Run a command...
Both work without pointer mode.
A modifier on its own is now a key combination too: a tap, pressed and
released with no other key, mouse button, or scroll in between. A bound
tap sends the desktop F24 before the release, so Plasma's launcher stays
shut. The defaults gain a Meta tap for the Steam menu; this replaces
META_DASHBOARD, which only worked in pointer mode.
input/test/keys-test.py runs the relay against fake devices with every
outgoing socket renamed, so it's safe next to the live relay.
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scripts/keys-report.py records what happens to the modifiers, Tab, and
Esc while someone reproduces a key problem: each press, release, and
autorepeat as the relay reads it from a physical keyboard, and as it
comes out of the relay's virtual keyboard to gamescope and SteamVR. It
adds the relay's view of every device (role, grabbed), which programs
have each input node open, and the relay, pointer helper, and desktop
logs for the same time. Other keys show only as "other key", so nothing
typed ends up in the report, and Bluetooth addresses are masked.
For #2: Shift+Tab in the Frametop desktop opened the SteamVR dashboard
and then stayed held, which doesn't happen here.
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