How to use macroboard?

[aplatypus]

@Moxinilian ... I found the description for macroboard in passing and saw that it works with Wayland. I need and xdotool replacement that can work under Wayland to issue some keystrokes (command lines and inputs).

• Do you think macroboard is suitable for this?
• I am also looking for some notes or a blog on how to used the crate?
  • I built and ran the example program basic.rs, nothing happened.
  • I would expect there to be some kind of macro definition input or such??

I hope you can point me in the right direction please? (I am using Kubuntu 23.04) Thanks in advance.

[Moxinilian]

Hey!

Macroboard is more of a library than a standalone tool. It's focused on getting input from the external keyboard more than actually doing actions. You're expected to implement the actions yourself.

For example, in the basic.rs example, triggering a key only prints stuff to the console. It's then on you to implement logic that does whatever you want it to do.

If that sounds good to you, check out the documentation on docs.rs, it should explain everything. The crate is quite small so it should not be too overwhelming.

[aplatypus]

Ah, thanks for that info. Probably not what I'm looking for just now. Will review the docs :-)