GUI/App to automate key presses in linux wayland
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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I did use Clicker on Wayland - available on Flathub.
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
Does Actiona suit your needs?
If it works on wayland then yes
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.
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.https://github.com/Net-Mist/wdotool
Unfortunately it ain't a gui
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.
Or read the manual, instead of wasting a few kg CO² on lazyness?
What's the difference between this and ydotool
ydotool works too
I havent used either in a while