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xdo
- Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
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How to limit a single app run?
An example with xdo:
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Open app in the background
I might have understood your question wrong, if you want to close the GUI window after staring the app you'd want to take a look at xdo. I'd still give it a little bit of time after starting it to be ready and then use something like:
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Keybind to center floating window?
xdo (by baskerville, bspwm's creator);
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Update regarding Steam + DWM + focusonnetactive
The focusonnetactive patch replaces dwm's default behavior by removing the urgency bit to allow for focusing on the client sending the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message instead. This is the preferred behavior if you use tools like xdo to perform actions on windows, for example:
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?
prospect-mail - Prospect is an Outlook mail desktop client powered by Electron
xdotool - fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more
core - Set of window manipulation tools
wtype - xdotool type for wayland
autopy - A simple, cross-platform GUI automation module for Python and Rust.
AutoKey - AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.
TPMouse - A virtual trackball for Windows, via vim-like homerow controls.
evsieve - A utility for mapping events from Linux event devices.
whkd - A simple hotkey daemon for Windows
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
autopilot-rs - A simple, cross-platform GUI automation module for Rust.
key-mapper - 🎮 An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons. [Moved to: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper]