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ayushnix / tessen

an interactive menu to autotype and copy pass and gopass data
GNU General Public License v2.0
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add support for ydotool #20

Closed alexminder closed 2 years ago

alexminder commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool can be used as alternative for wtype for autotype feature. It can work not only for wayland apps.

ayushnix commented 2 years ago

Sorry, but this is mentioned here as one of the features I'm not really interested in implementing because using ydotool means giving your user access to /dev/uinput, normally owned only by the root user.

The situation for virtual keyboard input is kinda messy right now with wlroots, GNOME, and KDE doing their own thing although KDE and wlroots both support input-method. Unfortunately, wtype doesn't use this protocol yet. If it does or if another virtual keyboard backend comes up which supports input-method, I'll switch tessen to that program. However, using /dev/uinput will not be supported.

ayushnix commented 2 years ago

These links should help explain issues when using /dev/uinput.