ydotool
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 26, 2025first mention
Jul 19, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use ydotool and my phone and laptop can easily be a keyboard”
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“check out ydotool”
“I used ydotool [1] in Sway years ago, worked perfectly fine.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
- Transcribe.cpp 1 mention
- Key, in sight [Creative uses of keyboard shortcuts and macros] 1 mention
- I Hate: Programming Wayland Applications 1 mention
- Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma 1 mention
- Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation 1 mention
- Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure 1 mention
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All comments 6
“The first two work 'well enough' though, and are fairly tunable.”
“kmonad+bash+ydotool+systemd”
“ydotool exists”
“I use ydotool and my phone and laptop can easily be a keyboard”
“check out ydotool”
“I used ydotool [1] in Sway years ago, worked perfectly fine.”