For me AutoKey is absolutely essential to my workflow. I have tons of text expansions and shortcuts to “remap” keys. E.g., respectively, typing dAt expands into 2025-05-08, 13:47:40 CEST, and pressing alt + k simulates the arrow down key.
Secondly there’s XScreenSaver which has so many wonderful (mathematical) visualizations that it would be a damn shame if these eventually get lost as Wayland gets more adoption.
None of these have Wayland alternatives as far as I know. For text expansion there’s Espanso, but it doesn’t support keyboard shortcuts yet.
AwesomeWM, and xdotool.
That’s it. Oh and x-eyes of course
There’s ydotool.
I find it’s not as reliable in targeting inputs, and you sometimes need to set the XDG_RUNTIME variable yourself.
wtypeis much better at this, but is limited to keystrokeswhat do you use x-eyes for?
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https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html
I don’t think that was entirely serious…
New hyprland patch can do pretty much all the xdotool stuff since they added a send key to window thing
You might be interested in river as a awesome replacement:
https://codeberg.org/river/wiki
Appreciate the link, and I don’t mean to sound so ungrateful, but that extensive README contains everything except what exactly
riveris. Is it a desktop manager? A standalone compositor? What does it fix? What does it replace? etc.Edit: Oh, it’s a tiling window manager, and all WMs in wayland have to be compositors.
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Have you tried ydotools, which works on both Wayland and X?
https://lemmy.ml/post/29786179/18482468