--watch not working

[wkwkw]

I tried running xkeysnail with --watch and plugged in a keyboard, but nothing happened.

After some easy debugging, I found that at plugging in a keyboard, add_new_devices() is called properly and getting event.name is ok, but no code after new_device = InputDevice("/dev/input/" + event.name) is not working.

My environment is as below.
Ubuntu: 16.0.4
xkeysnail: 0.1.0
python: 3.6.4
pip: 19.0.3

Thanks.

[wkwkw]

I found that it happens only when I'm running xkeysnail as another user.
The problem seems to be that the user has no permission to access /dev/input/*.

[kentacho]

I had a similar permission issue. In my case, the problem is that when a keyboard is plugged and the device file is created in /dev/input, xkeysnail tries to access the device file before the correct permission is set.

My problem was solved by changing this line:

        inotify.add_watch("/dev/input", flags.CREATE)

to

        inotify.add_watch("/dev/input", flags.CREATE | flags.ATTRIB)

(So xkeysnail retries to access the device file when the permission is changed.)
Does this fix your issue as well?

[wkwkw]

@kentacho
Your solution worked fine for my issue. Thank you very much!

[joshgoebel]

@wkwkw Think we can close this issue now?

[joshgoebel]

Ping.