[GH-ISSUE #316] [KDE Plasma] lan-mouse keeps prompting for Input Capture permission #163

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opened 2026-05-05 22:12:14 -06:00 by gitea-mirror · 4 comments

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2026-05-05 22:12:14 -06:00

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Originally created by @hoshinolina on GitHub (Aug 4, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/feschber/lan-mouse/issues/316

Every time I am idle on a client for a while, KDE re-prompts for input capture permission. Sometimes there are multiple prompts in sequence. This is quite annoying, since moving the mouse to a client leaves it stuck there until the prompt is accepted.

Is lan-mouse "closing" the input capture, and maybe KDE then re-prompts after a timeout? Maybe there is some kind of workaround that could be done on the lan-mouse side, or change of behavior so this doesn't happen?

Originally created by @hoshinolina on GitHub (Aug 4, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/feschber/lan-mouse/issues/316 Every time I am idle on a client for a while, KDE re-prompts for input capture permission. Sometimes there are multiple prompts in sequence. This is quite annoying, since moving the mouse to a client leaves it stuck there until the prompt is accepted. Is lan-mouse "closing" the input capture, and maybe KDE then re-prompts after a timeout? Maybe there is some kind of workaround that could be done on the lan-mouse side, or change of behavior so this doesn't happen?

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2026-05-05 22:12:15 -06:00

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@nbolton commented on GitHub (Aug 4, 2025):

Yes, same problem over on Deskflow:

https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow/issues/8032

There are some workarounds there that you may find useful until this gets fixed upstream.

@nbolton commented on GitHub (Aug 4, 2025): Yes, same problem over on Deskflow: - https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow/issues/8032 There are some [workarounds](https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow/issues/8032#issuecomment-2867520306) there that you may find useful until this gets fixed upstream.

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2026-05-05 22:12:16 -06:00

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@JonasVerhofste commented on GitHub (Aug 29, 2025):

This is an issue in KDE, not in lan-mouse. Plasma Wayland does not persists permissions:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502866

I got around that by setting permissions through the newish permissions api (Plasma 6.3 onward):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Pre-authorize_remote_control_on_Wayland

@JonasVerhofste commented on GitHub (Aug 29, 2025): This is an issue in KDE, not in lan-mouse. Plasma Wayland does not persists permissions: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502866 I got around that by setting permissions through the newish permissions api (Plasma 6.3 onward): https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Pre-authorize_remote_control_on_Wayland

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2026-05-05 22:12:17 -06:00

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@nbolton commented on GitHub (Aug 30, 2025):

I got around that by setting permissions through the newish permissions api (Plasma 6.3 onward):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Pre-authorize_remote_control_on_Wayland

Unfortunately that's for Remote Control which is a different to Input Capture (this issue).

Currently there is no way to persist Input Capture permission but it is being worked on:

There is a horrible and janky workaround though: https://github.com/deskflow/accept-portal-dialog

@nbolton commented on GitHub (Aug 30, 2025): > I got around that by setting permissions through the newish permissions api (Plasma 6.3 onward): > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Pre-authorize_remote_control_on_Wayland Unfortunately that's for Remote Control which is a different to Input Capture (this issue). Currently there is no way to persist Input Capture permission but it is being worked on: - https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1768 - https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1186 There is a horrible and janky workaround though: https://github.com/deskflow/accept-portal-dialog

gitea-mirror commented

2026-05-05 22:12:18 -06:00

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@hoshinolina commented on GitHub (Oct 15, 2025):

I opened this because the popup keeps reappearing, not just once when lan-mouse is first started. I imagine there should be some workaround lan-mouse can do to keep this from happening. Of course, until KDE has the persistent stuff working, you'd still have to at least accept it once.

@hoshinolina commented on GitHub (Oct 15, 2025): I opened this because the popup keeps *reappearing*, not just once when lan-mouse is first started. I imagine there should be some workaround lan-mouse can do to keep this from happening. Of course, until KDE has the persistent stuff working, you'd still have to at least accept it once.