So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

Re:So let’s talk about this Wayland thing by nicoty on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:17PM (#37551823)

> Standard protocols now exist for just about everything anyone needs.

I have been OOTL with the Wayland ecosystem for a few years. Does it provide a way for users to create and use input macros (similar to Autohotkey and xdotool) yet? That (in addition to remote desktop and screen casting) was one of the main blockers for me in daily-driving it.

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Re:So let’s talk about this Wayland thing by Fergusonb on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:20PM (#37551834)

There's ydotool, but as far as I tested with it, the only movements that work are relative movements. You can't tell it to a click a specific x/y because it will fumble badly (Nobara / Fedora 38 )

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Re:So let’s talk about this Wayland thing by gebbie on Monday September 18, 2023 @04:59AM (#37553849)

iirc ydotool just whips a relative device into a corner before trying to position it, which gets it extra wrong if there's mouse acceleration. It's one of the reasons I wrote dotool (https://git.sr.ht/~geb/dotool): echo mouseto 0.5 0.5 | dotool

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Re:So let’s talk about this Wayland thing by matthewn on Monday September 18, 2023 @12:20AM (#37552204)

I use Espanso for this; it has worked well on Wayland for some time.

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Re:So let’s talk about this Wayland thing by Vilian on Monday September 18, 2023 @06:53AM (#37554558)

yes, you need root and a different implementation than with xorg, but yes you can

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