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Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session
Wayland Gameboy locker. Contribute to AdoPi/wlgblock development by creating an account on GitHub.
Since I’ve worked with emulators in the past and I’m a huge Pokémon fan, the idea of building the puzzle around that game came to me instantly! It will apply the patch that provide a way for the emulator to know when it can unlock your session (in addition to some nice mods made by myself: skip intro, no popup menu in pokémon party). I have implemented a low level window in Wayland ( EGL + keyboard listeners ), this is the kind of job SDL or GTK usually do for you.
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