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kbr2000

Hey, well done! For these kinds of tasks, myself I regularly use the venerable Expect [0].

Thanks, I too use expect for some tasks, atbswp was built for quick and dirty things, and non-technical people.

And ultimately, I want to achieve Wayland support, which I don't think is possible in expect either.

Expect is a Tcl extension. You can also put Tk in the mix if you want, to create graphical Expect-based applications. You might know Tk from Tkinter (a Python binding to Tk).

Undroidwish [0] is a Tcl/Tk binary that apparently has experimental support for Wayland (through SDL). It's a spin-off from Androwish [1], but more for desktop/embedded systems.

You might have something there, as Expect is supported for Androwish already.

[0] https://www.androwish.org/home/wiki?name=undroidwish

[1] https://www.androwish.org/

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