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> Standard protocols now exist for just about everything anyone needs. I have been OOTL with the Wayland ecosystem for a few years. Does it provide a way for u
by nicoty 3y ago
> Standard protocols now exist for just about everything anyone needs.
I have been OOTL with the Wayland ecosystem for a few years. Does it provide a way for users to create and use input macros (similar to Autohotkey and xdotool) yet? That (in addition to remote desktop and screen casting) was one of the main blockers for me in daily-driving it.
- Fergusonb 3y agoThere's ydotool, but as far as I tested with it, the only movements that work are relative movements. You can't tell it to a click a specific x/y because it will fumble badly (Nobara / Fedora 38 )
- gebbie 3y agoiirc ydotool just whips a relative device into a corner before trying to position it, which gets it extra wrong if there's mouse acceleration. It's one of the reasons I wrote dotool (https://git.sr.ht/~geb/dotool https://git.sr.ht/~geb/dotool): echo mouseto 0.5 0.5 | dotool
- matthewn 3y agoI use Espanso for this; it has worked well on Wayland for some time.
- Vilian 3y agoyes, you need root and a different implementation than with xorg, but yes you can