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Automating keyboard+mouse in cachyos kde using wayland (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi,

using Cachyos kde I've been making a python script that will move the mouse to a position -> click -> move mouse back to the original position. I can get this working with x11, but it fails with wayland.

Do you know any way to programatically move the mouse and click that works with wayland?

Thanks

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

The proper way to programmatically move a cursor on Linux is using uinput.

Anything you were doing that worked in xorg and not in wayland was more akin to a weird remnant from the 80s than to an actual solution.

However, there will likely be full featured applications that already do whatever you were trying to do.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    uinput is not the proper way, it's emulating a hardware device.

    The remote desktop portal is the proper way. Even xdotool works through that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Interesting, I didn't know you could do that through the portal directly.

    I was only familiar with uinput because I have used it before to use a wiimote as a mouse, and for that you'd actually want to emulate a mouse.

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