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Enhance wlr-layer-shell keyboard_interactivity

The current keyboard_interactivity allows clients to only notify the compositor they want exclusive keyboard access. It would make much more sense to allow clients to specify they want one of the following:

  1. No keyboard interaction - backgrounds, some docks, etc
  2. keyboard-focus-on-click - such could be panels that have a search field or that can be navigated with they keyboard, but don't want to lock focus to their layer
  3. exclusive keyboard focus - like the current 1 value - can be used for ex. by lockscreens

Note that adding this doesn't have to break existing clients - the protocol currently says what happens when the value is 1 (and afaik it is implicitly understood the only other reasonable value is 0). We can just specify what happens when the value is 2 (focus-on-click)

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