NixOS: Setting up Push To Talk in Mumble on Sway
Switching to Wayland has it’s side-effects, one of which is the improved security from X11 where applications can’t just randomly spy on each other at any point.
This is both good news and bad news.
The good news:
- Applications can’t just randomly spy on each other.
The bad news:
- Things like global hot-keys in for example Mumble won’t work.
Back from complaining to actually solving the problem though.
Mumble does have a patch for a future release
So there’s the issue about Push to talk does not work in Wayland, this has been followed up by a patch Add DBus calls to de/-activate push to talk. This patch will land in the 1.4.0 release though while current stable is 1.3.4.
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