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by halz 1925 days ago
A project to keep an eye on, to replicate 'autotype' support offered by many password managers, is wlrctl¹. A popular alternative is ydotool², but brings some additional risks the operator might not be comfortable with.

¹https://git.sr.ht/%7Ebrocellous/wlrctl

²https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool

1 comments

re:ydotool. More than risks, I would say the author constantly changing things without testing and breaking the tool is what made me stop using it. I wrote my own version using evdev and never looked back.
Could you post a link to it? Ive been using ydotool for a while, its not working 100% reliably though.
It's not public. I don't really open source most of the tools I write for myself because there's basically no incentive to do so.