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Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure

In 2007, I was spending a my norther-hemisphere summer experimenting with UI automation. Born of those efforts, xdotool came into being when I separated it from another project. The goal was modest - write some scripts that execute common keyboard, mouse, and window management tasks. The first commit had only a few…
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Nov 16, 2025Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure by viraptor10093

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