--watch not working about xkeysnail HOT 5 OPEN

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?

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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/*.

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

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@wkwkw Think we can close this issue now?

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Ping.

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