wtype
xdotool type for wayland (by atx)
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots (by emersion)
| wtype | xdg-desktop-portal-wlr | |
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| 16 | 68 | |
| 331 | 561 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 6.3 | |
| over 2 years ago | 11 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wtype
Posts with mentions or reviews of wtype.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-01.
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MacOS-like keybindings (Super+...) in sway
You need to have wtype installed
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Autohotkey alternative that works on wayland?
Take a look at ydotool and wtype. AFAIK they're the best options at the moment.
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Why remote desktop applications lack Wayland support?
ydotool & wtype are able to click/type and automate input on wayland
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How can I do things similar in SwayWM to simulating mouse using keyboard and Xdotool?
Maybe try wtype ?
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Is there a Wayland alternative to wmctrl?
wtype
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xdotool alternative for Wayland
wtype - xdotool type for wayland
- Less Than 10% of Firefox Users on Linux Are Running Wayland
- Is there any benefit to wayland?
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tessen: an interactive menu to autotype and copy password store data on Wayland, like rofi-pass
tessen can use either bemenu, the wayland fork of rofi, or wofi to show password store data. It relies on wtype for autotyping instead of using ydotool because ydotool needs root privileges.
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tessen: autotype and copy password-store data on Wayland, like rofi-pass
I've made a script called tessen which is, more or less, a replacement of rofi-pass but for Wayland. It can use bemenu or the wayland fork of rofi. It relies on wtype for autotyping instead of using ydotool because ydotool needs a daemon running with root privileges.
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Posts with mentions or reviews of xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
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How do I configure xdg-desktop-portal so that it works and keeps working?
It comes with a systemd service file https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/blob/master/contrib/systemd/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service.in that you can use
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How do you guys screenshare Sway on Discord?
Are you running the Wayland envvar for Firefox, MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1? Because the rest of your setup sounds very similar to my (working) setup. You could also run the Python test script included with xdg-desktop-portal-wlr (bottom of this page) as a sanity check that nothing's going wrong there
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Which technology / protocol etc. is the next big thing, coming the next few years in Linux gaming?
- Global hotkey portal
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Is there any way to screenshare only a single window?
Not yet: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/107
- Xfce 4.18, and the Future of the Desktop
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Moving from a DE, loss of functionality?
You'll need this
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Tearing updates got merged into Wayland! Now we only have to wait for implementations in KWin and Gnome!
I believe that a lot of the current approach to fixing it is something similar to xdg-desktop-portal. That's for signaling for screenshots, but a similar idea could work for listening for key events without being focused, apparently. It bypasses the standard Wayland system completely and uses D-Bus and Pipewire instead. I'm not too familiar with the details myself, though.
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PSA: Steam Link (Remote Play) works on Wayland with AMD GPU
I don't know which of the xdg-desktop-portal backends you would need for gamescope, but xdg-desktop-portal-wlr has a config file which it reads where you can set the preferred output and set the chooser_type to none. That makes it skip the screen selector for me.
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flameshot not working in sway (typing "flameshot gui" hangs in the terminal)
See these links for more info: * flameshot: flameshot gui from cli does nothing. dbus error UnknownMethod: "No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot” #2872 * xdg-desktop-portal: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop #861 * xdg-desktop-portal-wlr: screenshot: Announce version property
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sway inverted screen sharing
This is a known issue: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/83
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wtype and xdg-desktop-portal-wlr you can also consider the following projects:
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wayland-protocols - Wayland protocol development (mirror)
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - Gtk implementation of xdg-desktop-portal
xdotool - fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support
v4l2loopback - v4l2-loopback device
key-mapper - 🎮 An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons. [Moved to: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper]
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
wtype vs ydotool
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs sway
wtype vs wayland-protocols
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
wtype vs xdotool
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs wayvnc
wtype vs ydotool
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs wlroots
wtype vs rofi
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs v4l2loopback
wtype vs key-mapper
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs flameshot