alt Hacker NewsIt is a damn shame that tools like xdotool (automation) and sxhkd (global keybinds) are impossible to recreate under Wayland.
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zwarag • today at 4:53 PM
Not only that. A11y is also quite hard. Tools that are simple to implement thanks to good a11y apis - for example on macos, the tool rcmd or homerow - are super hard to do in Wayland.
j16sdiz • today at 4:27 PM
Not literally impossible. You just need to write your own composer!
Krutonium • today at 4:40 PM
wdotool exists, and global hotkeys are a thing under wayland, but is desktop dependent. KDE allows it by default, Gnome can be made to do it as well with an extension.
James_K • today at 4:44 PM
I'm using Sway right now and I have key binds. Not sure why you think that's impossible.
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Not impossible, it just needs to be implemented at a different layer. The compositor needs to expose some API for global hotkeys. For example, I found this with ~2 minutes of Googling: https://wayland.app/protocols/hyprland-global-shortcuts-v1