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There is no way to "target wayland" for a tool like this. For security reasons pretty much everything this tool does is blocked on wayland. You could perhaps ma
by amaranth 4y ago
There is no way to "target wayland" for a tool like this. For security reasons pretty much everything this tool does is blocked on wayland. You could perhaps make a version for sway and other wlroots-using desktops that works mostly like the current tool. For GNOME you might be able to get away with rewriting it in JS as a shell extension, no idea for KDE.
- llllllllllll9 4y agoyeah. this is as far as you get: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool. begs the question. how come ahk can run on windows(tm) but not wayland? my understanding is that win10/11 are pretty secure.
- selfhoster11 4y agoIMO, a position of "LOL, it works just fine on Wayland, just write it from scratch in six different programming languages to cover 80-90% of DEs/WMs out there" is not very developer (or for that matter, user) friendly. At least X11 is a single interface to target.
- jrm4 4y agoWhat's interesting is, very often, "for security reasons" is a complete BS kludge to say "we don't want to implement this." I normally wouldn't expect that sort of thing from Linux folk...perhaps until now.
- llllllllllll9 4y agoit's a variant of "for the children ..."