Installing Espanso on openSUSE

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After the basic setup was done (I made a list of tools to be installed on line before I installed Linux itself), I wanted Espanso

While Espanso is well supported on X11, for wayland, it needs to be compiled from the source

I ran into this issue but solution was found in the same issue.

While install went through, I ran into issues related to capability grant.

Following worked:

sudo zypper install libcap-progs
sudo setcap "cap_dac_override+p" $(which espanso)
espanso start --unmanaged

I also needed to add the following to config/default.yml

keyboard_layout:
  layout: us

I finally got Espanso working!