Occasionally, I've enjoying playing around with window management and hacking with WMs, using stuff like this and/or xdotool and wmctrl.
I was curious as to what this might be like in Wayland-land? Do tools like this even exist?
Gee, if only there were a modern display server protocol with a fixed security model!
Theoretically, X11 is dangerous. But what isn't?
Ydotool readme:
> Currently implemented command(s):
> type - Type a string
> key - Press keys
> mousemove - Move mouse pointer to absolute position
> click - Click on mouse buttons
So... No.
KWin scripts or something might work for KDE: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/kwin/
No; for just the input functions, and that only if you're not using `--window`, it's a substitute. But xdotool is a lot more than that.
> For anything else you need a compositor specific tool.
Yes, exactly. For the things that were asked for, your best hope is do see if your particular compositor deigned to provide the API surface, and then if it did, write something that uses those non-portable APIs to do what you want.
Want to make it easy? Use KDE which cares about flexibility and write scripts for it. Otherwise - probably tough luck, not sure how much other compositors even care about such things.
There is no way to do the equivalent of xdotool type --window 0x600005 "my important input"
In exchange, Wayland gains… well, nothing really, the idea is that it’ll protect users from malicious programs peeking at other windows on their computer. But in that case situation is already FUBAR, there’s no way to protect a computer that is already running attacks locally on itself.