torstehu / wtype

xdotool type for wayland

wtype

xdotool type for wayland

Building

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ sudo make install

Usage

# Type unicode characters
wtype ∇⋅∇ψ = ρ

To press/release modifiers, -M/-m can be used respectively.

# Press Ctrl+C
wtype -M ctrl c -m ctrl

To press/release a named key (as given by xkb_keysym_get_name), -P/-p can be used.

# Press and release the Left key
wtype -P left -p left

Note that when wtype terminates, all the pressed keys/modifiers get released, as the compositor destroys the associated virtual keyboard object. To help performing a more complicated sequence of key presses, -s can be used to insert delays into the stream of key events.

# Hold the Right key for 1000ms
wtype -P right -s 1000 -p right

Limitations

To support arbitrary unicode characters, wtype generates a keymap on the fly and submits it to the compositor for distribution. Unfortunately this is broken under Xwayland as X it does have an upper limit on the amount of defined keycode-keysym pairs.