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		com 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can I start using Wayland in 2026? I don’t use x2x but use xev and xdotool for automated regression testing of GUI tools. I can’t find a low-effort, high-portability, low-menory way to do it with Wayland. Local and also in CI pipelines.

charmicat 12 days ago [–]

wev+ydotool?

com 11 days ago | [–]

I might be in the wrong Wayland desktop environment; I couldn’t get it to work reliably. Headless Wayland was really complicated when I last tried it, and quite memory heavy.

I’ll try again this month!

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