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Automating keyboard+mouse in cachyos kde using wayland (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by basic_user@lemmy.world 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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[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.de 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.it 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 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.