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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...
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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.
I'm trying to use ydotool, which specifies that it needs ydotoold running in the background. How should I go about that? I found a pull request from 2020 that's been closed, asking for a systemd service but it doesn't appear to come with one. The README doesn't include anything that I can find about how to set up the background process properly.
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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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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
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TUTORIAL: Making Caps do both Control and Esc like Caps2Esc, but with only hyprland+ydotool
This solution depends on ydotool which you must install first
evsieve
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𝑥MK: Use programmable keyboard firmware with any keyboard.
There are many other software tools such as https://github.com/jtroo/kanata and https://github.com/KarsMulder/evsieve. The main difference with 𝑥MK is that you can use native QMK and ZMK.
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Anyone Here Using Sway? Is It Stable? How Did You Install?
Ironically I know you can do this in i3 and xorg/gnome using xmodmap or editing the xkb file. I'm pretty sure wayland compositors should be able to read xkb-compliant files but the recommended way of loading that in is probabaly different between various compositors? You could also use a "second generation" interception tool that works at the event device level.
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Manjaro + Hackintosh + Windows Setup
You might want to try evsieve, it even has an example about toggling devices and it concludes with a hint on how to get this to work for 2 VMs.
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Change evdev toggle for keyboard/mouse
Evsieve is amazing in general you sould check it out 🙂
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Switching my inputs back and forth from guest VM when using GPU passthrough
evsieve has solved that for me, as the virtual device created is always available; it starts when I log on my computer and stay open forever.
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Is it possible to remap evdev's keybindings to return to Host?
Haven't tried it myself, but it claims to be able to do what you need : https://github.com/KarsMulder/evsieve
If this feels a bit limited (you have a few predefined options), there's also evsieve. Which allows you to do a lot more (like selective key pass-through, shortcuts, etc.).
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3 VMs, 3 monitors, 1 kb+mouse. Possible?
You can use evsieve to split the event devices for your keyboard and mouse into three different virtual event devices, which you can pass to three different VMs using evdev passthrough. It has the same idea as the tool suggested by /u/dangle-point, but it already has multiple-VM functionality today. You could for example use it with the following arguments:
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Is there any hook for the evdev "switch" event to run a script (ddccontrol)?
/u/KernelTinkerer created evsieve not long ago as well. It can do this and more.
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UInput keyboard remapper (Qwerty to Dvorak)
Coincidentally, I’ve recently written a program evsieve that’s also capable of doing this, though a bit more general purpose.
What are some alternatives?
xdotool - fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more
wtype - xdotool type for wayland
AutoKey - AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
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.
Fusuma - Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux
evdev-proxy - Creates virtual device to proxy evdev devices events
libinput-gestures - Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput
barrier - Open-source KVM software
edotool - edotool: simulate keyboard input and mouse activity