Enable xremap on Debian/Ubuntu

playbooks/Linux.yaml

@@ -5,4 +5,9 @@
   roles:
     - role: kitty
     - role: xremap
-      when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat"
+      when: >
+        'GNOME' in ansible_env.XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP and
+        ansible_env.XDG_SESSION_TYPE == 'wayland' and (
+            ansible_os_family == "RedHat" or
+            ansible_os_family == "Debian"
+        )

roles/xremap/tasks/main.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ---
 - assert:
-    that: ansible_env.XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP == "GNOME" and
+    that: >
-          ansible_env.XDG_SESSION_TYPE == "wayland"
+      'GNOME' in ansible_env.XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP and
+      ansible_env.XDG_SESSION_TYPE == 'wayland'
 
 - set_fact:
     install_dir: '{{ansible_env.HOME}}/.local/bin'
@@ -35,12 +36,14 @@
   set_fact:
     needs_installed:
       '{{not executable.stat.exists or installed_version != latest.json.name}}'
+    xdg_current_desktop:
+      "{{ansible_env.XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP | regex_replace('(.*:)?(.*)', '\\2')}}"
 
 - name: construct asset query
   set_fact:
     asset_query: >
       [?contains(name, `xremap-linux-{{ansible_architecture}}-{{
-                     ansible_env.XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP | lower}}.zip`)] | [0]
+                     xdg_current_desktop | lower}}.zip`)] | [0]
 - name: get release asset
   set_fact:
     asset: '{{latest.json.assets | to_json | from_json | json_query(asset_query)}}'
@@ -81,6 +84,14 @@
     append: true
     groups: input
 
+- name: load the uinput kernel module
+  when: ansible_os_family == 'Debian'
+  become: true
+  copy:
+    content: |
+      uinput
+    dest: /etc/modules-load.d/uinput.conf
+
 # TODO: This works for on Fedora, author uses it on Ubuntu so I assume Debian
 # will work too. Arch and other distros are potentially different see the docs
 # https://github.com/k0kubun/xremap