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For me AutoKey is absolutely essential to my workflow. I have tons of text expansions and shortcuts to "remap" keys. E.g., respectively, typing dAt expands into 2025-05-08, 13:47:40 CEST, and pressing alt + k simulates the arrow down key.

Secondly there's XScreenSaver which has so many wonderful (mathematical) visualizations that it would be a damn shame if these eventually get lost as Wayland gets more adoption.

None of these have Wayland alternatives as far as I know. For text expansion there's Espanso, but it doesn't support keyboard shortcuts yet.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

AwesomeWM, and xdotool.

That's it. Oh and x-eyes of course

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Have you tried ydotools, which works on both Wayland and X?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I find it's not as reliable in targeting inputs, and you sometimes need to set the XDG_RUNTIME variable yourself. wtype is much better at this, but is limited to keystrokes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I don't think that was entirely serious...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

👀

https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html

Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You might be interested in river as a awesome replacement:

https://codeberg.org/river/wiki

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Appreciate the link, and I don't mean to sound so ungrateful, but that extensive README contains everything except what exactly river is. Is it a desktop manager? A standalone compositor? What does it fix? What does it replace? etc.

Edit: Oh, it's a tiling window manager, and all WMs in wayland have to be compositors.