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by yjftsjthsd-h 700 days ago
I don't think that's inherently true; what would prevent someone making a wayland compositor that implemented the X11 protocols for interacting with other windows?

> There is some attempts though like: https://github.com/atx/wtype

I am aware of several of these attempts; so far they all fall flat precisely because wayland compositors tend to not provide enough API surface to actually recreate xdotool et al. entirely (ex. wtype will always blindly type into whatever window is active, it can't provide xdotool's --window option to pick where keystrokes are going).