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.

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

AwesomeWM, and xdotool.

That's it. Oh and x-eyes of course

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You might be interested in river as a awesome replacement:

    https://codeberg.org/river/wiki

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Appreciate the link, and I don't mean to sound so ungrateful, but that extensive README contains everything except what exactly river is. 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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