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Planned features

• Support for platform specific configuration. This would be on the form of platform name prefixed arguments to Listener constructors. Possible features include:

  • Modify key presses on Mac OSX.
  • Prevent propagation of events on Windows.

• Support for simulating multi touch tablets. This would be a new type of input device along keyboard and mouse. I have not yet looked in to whether this is actually supported on all platforms.

• Migration plan for Linux. Since X will soon be replaced in some distributions, backends to support Wayland and Mir are required. This may unfortunately not be possible, since at least Wayland does not support any of the functionality required by pynput by default.

  Further investigation reveals that at least Wayland is partially supported out-of-the box by Xwayland:

  • Keyboard controlling work as when running under X.
  • Mouse controlling works, but does not visually update the cursor. This requires some fix for projects like virtualtouchpad, since they require visual feedback.
  • Event monitoring surprisingly works, both for keyboard events and mouse events.

• Support for all lock keys. The first step would be make the caps lock implementation less hardcoded to make is easier to add lock keys. This first step would also help with implementing support for the numeric keypad and num lock.

• Adding a CONTRIBUTING.md file.