Using with Synergy/Barrier about espanso HOT 6 OPEN

Thanks for the pointer and excitement, wonderful! looks to be one fo the reason I should grab rust and see if it works for me! super fingers crossed! 🤞

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Putting an update on this issue. I was actually wrong in the first thread.

I originally said

Espanso (running on Computer A) also works if I do RDP or Anydesk into Computer B.

This was confusing.

It only works if I have Espanso running on the computer that has the physical keyboard attached.

Just confirmed that if I remote into the machine using AnyDesk (latest version) I cannot get espanso to expand. That is Espanso is insallted on the host machine that is being "remoted" into.

I can only get it to work if Espanso is installed into the client machine (the machine you are remoting from). This will work obviously because that is Espanso intercepting physical keyboard input.

I taking Anydesk as the example software because its free and can be easily tested.

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@AucaCoyan I am not sure if you are the right person to talk to. How can I debug how espanso "reads" input. Maybe Anydesk and remote software write using a different way that's why Espanso is not catching it?

I have zero knowldege about Rust but I do know some C and Go. What would be the best route to go debug this? If Rust, I will be happy to take that up as well.

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Hi there! Yes, you are right in tagging me 😄. I thought initially that I left a comment why I tagged this issue with help, but I can see I lost the comment in history!
I'm a bit new, even when I'm reading the codebase since around 2 months now. I don't fully understand how espanso works exactly but I think you are correct in:

Maybe Anydesk and remote software write using a different way that's why Espanso is not catching it?

I use Anydesk weekly and I can say that the keyboard on the guest (the person who looks at a window of anydesk with a desktop inside) can have a different keyboard layout than its host pc (where you can minimize the anydesk viewport). This will probably interfere with an espanso crate. I don't know which one, as there is few documentation, but I guess it can be espanso-detect, espanso-inject and/or espanso-engine.
I don't know either where does espanso keylogs the keys, but I know that the integration is written in native code, that is: C++ for windows, maybe C or C++ in linux, and Objective-C for mac.

Sorry for this vague response, but it's as far as I can see currently! Feel free to join the discord or continue with comments here 😀

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I missed the reason on the help tag.
Today we are really few people (maybe a handful, or less) that try to maintain this project, and federico is low on free-time. We saw that a couple of issues related to RDP are affecting a relatively small portion in comparison of all the users and we decided to lay them on the side until we can fix some urgent fixes (dependency updates and testing, at least). We are very much in need of more developers! So we would be thrilled if you can give us a hand in this project ❤️

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Super! Feel free to ask whatever you want and join the discord to share success (and failures) of compilation on the discord

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