[SOLVED] Macro Recorders/Players for Wayland (xmacro alternatives)

Neroman · 2024-09-17 11:57:24

Hi!
Recently I moved to wayland (hyprland) and would like to know if there are any alternatives for xmacro, which i have been using on x11, since i can't use it here anymore.
What tool are you using or have been using for it and what was your experience using it?
There is no problem to go back to x11 to use it specifically for macroses, but if there is tool for wayland I'd be grateful to know about it. Thanks!

Last edited by Neroman (2024-09-18 08:24:21)

V1del · 2024-09-17 16:25:42

There's no Wayland for these kind of tasks, you'd have to look for a tool specifically for hyprland.

And allowing any client to do whatever to any other client is one of the big security improvements Wayland was designed to prevent, so this might not be entirely trivial.

Neroman · 2024-09-18 08:24:04

V1del wrote:

There's no Wayland for these kind of tasks, you'd have to look for a tool specifically for hyprland.
And allowing any client to do whatever to any other client is one of the big security improvements Wayland was designed to prevent, so this might not be entirely trivial.

Found ydotool, looks like good thing. But I need to recompile my kernel to use it because of no uinput module (or just use default arch one).

zynix · 2026-06-07 03:24:05

https://github.com/alper-han/CrossMacro

WorMzy · 2026-06-07 10:51:52

Please don't necrobump.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22

Closing.

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[SOLVED] Macro Recorders/Players for Wayland (xmacro alternatives)

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