iohook vs electron-overlay-window

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iohook		electron-overlay-window
	Project
3	Mentions	2
1,133	Stars	180
1.3%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	2.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
C	Language	C
MIT License	License	MIT License

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iohook

Posts with mentions or reviews of iohook. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-26.

Installing IO-Hook and keyboard-mouse-triggers
1 project | /r/nodered | 21 Nov 2022
node.js installation error
1 project | /r/node | 1 Sep 2022

It looks like the 2015-2019 package would fix this. Take a look here and scroll to the screen shot: https://github.com/wilix-team/iohook/issues/167.
I've made an auto draw bot that can work in EVERY paint like program (skribbl.io, gartic phone ect)
3 projects | /r/node | 26 Mar 2021

that was my problem: https://github.com/wilix-team/iohook/issues/275

electron-overlay-window

Posts with mentions or reviews of electron-overlay-window. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-10.

PoE Instant Messenger v0.4.0-alpha
2 projects | /r/pathofexile | 10 Jun 2022

The application was written in Typescript, is using MUI, Electron and takes advantage of a crucial overlay dependency written by SnosMe called (electron-overlay-window). Without his work this project and a lot of others wouldn't be able to exist.
Path of Exile on Linux - an insight and thoughts on Steam Deck compatibility
3 projects | /r/pathofexile | 16 Aug 2021

Wayland support would be really nice, but keybindings and the overlay doesn't work right now. Regarding the overlay, i think Wayland bindings would have to be implemented in react-overlay-window.

What are some alternatives?

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fapolicyd - File Access Policy Daemon

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sigma-file-manager - "Sigma File Manager" is a free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / browser) app for Windows and Linux.

ocreval - Update of the ISRI Analytic Tools for OCR Evaluation with UTF-8 support

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code