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Re:Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) by shmerl on Sunday September 22, 2019 @02:47AM (#21040023)
Instead of xdotool, you can use this: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool
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Re:Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) by dyanaraps on Sunday September 22, 2019 @03:26AM (#21040103)
Not exactly a 1:1 replacement though:

> This program requires access to /dev/uinput. This usually requires root permissions.

Source: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool#runtime

Edit: I'll also add that only 5~ commands have been implemented so far in ydotool.

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