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There is xclicker which is a flatpak app, but it only automate mouse clicks, but there is nothing for key presses, I am surprised I could not find anything on this, but is there any GUI for this? Also is this possible on a technical level (in flatpak especially, I dont know if apps can simulate key presses). I know of ydotool, but that uses root, also its not a gui

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's not GUI, but I want to mention another alternative, as people mention commandline applications here too: kdotool, works under KDE Wayland without with normal user rights (no root). They still work on a few features, but it can do lot of windowing stuff already. A good addition to ydotool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Dunno if it would meet your needs, but I've been using Input Remapper for binding macros to various key presses and mouse buttons under Wayland. It does prompt for root access, but it's a GUI. It supports any input method, as far as I can tell. It even supports my tablet.

I use it to bind stuff like hold(key(BTN_LEFT).wait(100)) to some button to repeatedly left click while I'm holding that button down.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I did use Clicker on Wayland - available on Flathub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Weird it's called clicker when you can do key presses too, but I'll check it out. It looks like it fulfills my use case

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it works on wayland then yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Looks like it doesn't: https://wiki.actiona.tools/doku.php?id=en%3Ax11notdetected&s%5B%5D=wayland

I'm actually looking for something like this too because Autokey and pyautogui (and antimicrox on another machine) is the only software keeping me on X.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it ain't a gui

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I know it is not a gui, but until you find one:

it worked quite well to paste the documentation to chatgpt and ask it to make happen exactly what you want.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Or read the manual, instead of wasting a few kg CO² on lazyness?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the difference between this and ydotool

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

ydotool works too

I havent used either in a while

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago