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swaysome
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Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org
I don't actually remember what xmonad with workspaces by default (or what sway does, for that matter), I used https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.17.1/docs/XMonad-Layout-IndependentScreens.html to get an independent set of workspaces per screen. You can (and I do) use https://gitlab.com/hyask/swaysome to get that with sway.
- Can the active output-awarness of ‘workspace prev_on_output’ be used for bindings using ‘workspace <num:name>’?
- `swaysome` 2.0 released, introducing workspace groups
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Noob Question... Is there a limited # of commands per keybinding?
This is what I have in my config. (I am using swaysome to keep it generalized)
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Swapping Workspaces
I found a package swaysome that also that also seems to help and allows me to all monitors workspace simultaneously. This is what I have so far...
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Using 10 workspaces for each monitor in a multi-monitor setup ?
I did this with Swaysome: https://gitlab.com/hyask/swaysome
ydotool
- Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management
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Improving cursor rendering on Wayland
Wayland provides little by design, so this is quite typical. For example:
Screensharing is handled by pipewire [0], changing keyboard layouts aren't defined [1] by wayland, and generally anything Wayland devs think would 'corrupt' their protocol.
They leave most things to the compositor to implement, which leads to significant fragmentation as every compositor implements it differently.
Long gone are the days of xset and xdotool working across nearly every distro due to a common base, now the best you'll get is running a daemon as root to directly access `/dev/uinput` [2] or implementing each compositors accessibility settings (if they have them) as a workaround.
[0] https://superuser.com/questions/1221333/screensharing-under-...
[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/292868/how-to-custo...
[2] https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool
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how hard is it to program pinch zoom for my touchpad in linux?
I personally use libinput-gestures to call commands using touchpad gestures. You can also combine it with ydotool to bind macros and such to your gestures, e.g. 4 fingers swipe down closes the current window, 3 fingers swipe left or right changes workspace, etc
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ydotoold background process?
Have you tried using the systemd unit file supplied with ydotool? It's probably installed somewhere on your system. Else you can get it here and just change the install location of ydotoold.
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KDE-Connect keyboard input works on Wayland now!!
For simulated keyboard there are tools such as dotool or ydotool and KeePass extensions such as KPUInput that work by giving the user access to /dev/uinput. That works, but it's a bit inelegant; I guess in the future a Wayland protocol for simulated keyboard input will emerge, like wlroots already has, also for virtual pointers.
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Out of curiosity, I tried to use Wayland earlier and compared to X11, everything seems to load faster which really surprised me. However, I've also noticed some things that confused me, that's why I'm posting this. To ask what I'm missing or what I did wrong. Thanks as always!
ydotool is the generic equivalent. It works on both X11 and Wayland environments.
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Curious to know what are your general experiences on using keyboard and mouse input automations on Wayland...
Autokey does not work yet, but there is Hawck and Espanso that you could play around with. And there is ydotool if all you need is simulating basic input (as in ydotool mousemove -x -10 -y -10, ydotool type 'Hello world!' and so on).
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Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org
Does ydotool do what you need? I haven't even tried Wayland in years. I'm sure someday I'll find the need.
- Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
- How to emulate mouse clicks with keyboard shortcuts
What are some alternatives?
sway
xdotool - fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
wtype - xdotool type for wayland
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
AutoKey - AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
evsieve - A utility for mapping events from Linux event devices.
key-mapper - 🎮 An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons. [Moved to: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper]
fusuma-plugin-sendkey - Fusuma plugin that sending virtual keyboard events
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.