wtype(1)

💖 wtype(1) — the wtype man page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about wtype — it's literally xdotool type for Wayland 🦋✨

✨ NAME ✨

wtype — xdotool type for Wayland 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wtype [TEXT]

wtype [OPTION_OR_TEXT]... -- [TEXT]...

wtype [OPTION_OR_TEXT] -

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the vibe: wtype is a Wayland tool that lets you simulate keyboard input, exactly like xdotool type does over on X11 🫶

how does it pull that off?? via the virtual-keyboard Wayland protocol — no cap, that's the whole trick ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

first things first, the tea on modifiers ☕ a modifier can be one of:

• "shift"
• "capslock"
• "ctrl"
• "logo"
• "win"
• "alt"
• "altgr"

⚠️ beware bestie: the modifiers get released automatically once the program terminates. so don't come crying to me when your ctrl just… lets go 🙈

also! named keys are resolved by libxkbcommon 🌈 and valid identifiers include "Left" and "Home" (iykyk).

• -M MOD — Press modifier MOD. 💅
• -m MOD — Release modifier MOD. 🫶
• -P KEY — Press key KEY. 🔥
• -p KEY — Release key KEY. 🌸
• -k KEY — Type (press and release) key KEY. ✨
• -d TIME — Sleep for TIME milliseconds between keystrokes when typing texts. can be used multiple times, default is 0. 😴
• -s TIME — Sleep for TIME milliseconds before interpreting the following options. this one's the main character when you wanna perform more complicated modifier sequences 💫
• - — Read text to type from stdin. this option can appear only once. ⭐

🦋 BUGS 🦋

No known bugs. 😌✨ (we love a flawless queen, periodt)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

wtype has been started by Josef Gajdusek. 🎀

Man page is written by Michael 'jubalh' Vetter. 🌸

and that's the whole thing bestie!! this was version 0.4, dated 23 November 2020 — go forth and type slayfully, mwah 💋💖🌈