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pynput not support xorg

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#8 opened on Feb 20, 2025

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Description

change pynput to evdev

Unhandled exception in listener callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/dadmehr/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pynput/_util/__init__.py", line 228, in inner
    return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/dadmehr/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pynput/_util/xorg.py", line 470, in _handler
    self._handle(self._display_stop, event)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: '_thread._ThreadHandle' object is not callable

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Investigate replacing pynput with evdev for keyboard input handling on Xorg. Understand the error traceback and implement evdev based listener.
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