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

  • Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    xdotool should work the same in the Wayland session, assuming you give X11 apps the permission to emulate input. What about it isn’t working?

    • basic_user@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      16 hours ago

      I’ve been testing ydotool, but I end up running into this bug

      https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool/issues/250

      Which I can’t seem to get around. The workaround to move the mouse to 0,0 and then making non-absolute moves clashes with the game (warcraft 3) because when the mouse is at the edge of the screen it scrolls the view which is really annoying.

      I’m going to test input-remapper next.

      • ISOmorph@feddit.org
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Couldn’t you move the mouse to 1920,1080 or whatever your resolution is for the same amount of time to correct the movement? Since you can move the mouse in millisecond speeds it should barely be noticeable

        • basic_user@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          15 hours ago

          I did think about moving to an abritary base position and then move from there. The edge of the screen wont work as it will move the view, but any other position could work. I just dont like that I have to make a workaround for basic functionality. I’ll try input-remapper and see if it works better. If not I might go back and try this.

  • edinbruh@feddit.itEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      19 hours ago

      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.

      • edinbruh@feddit.itEnglish
        2·
        19 hours 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.

  • regdog@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    Does it need to be fully automatic, or does semi-automatic work for you?

    I am using input remapper to automate a few functions of my input devices. It only used it on my Plasma desktop, but it should work in all desktop environments.

  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
    110·
    2 days ago

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