ydotoold(8)

💖 ydotoold — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ydotoold(8), a page from the System Manager's Manual. pull up a chair, grab ur iced coffee, and let's talk about the little daemon that makes the whole ydotool situation actually work 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ydotoold — the daemon for ydotool(1) 💅

like. she's the backstage queen. ydotool does the performing, ydotoold does the holding it all together. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ydotoold [OPTION...]

that's it. that's the whole entrance. she's lowkey mysterious like that ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, and it's genuinely good tea: ydotoold holds a persistent virtual device, and accepts input from ydotool(1).

that's literally the whole job description and she ate. instead of setting up a fresh virtual device every single time you want to fake a keypress (exhausting, tragic, giving burnt-out intern energy 😭), the daemon just keeps one alive and hangs out, ready to receive input from ydotool(1) whenever it comes knocking. main character energy fr fr. it's giving "I stay ready so I don't have to get ready" 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here come the flags, bestie. there are three of them. not forty. we love a manageable menu 🌈

• -p, --socket-path arg <path> — sets the socket path. yeah, the place where the socket lives. ur choice, ur vibe 💜
• -P, --socket-perm arg <perms> — sets the socket permission. you're deciding who gets to talk to the socket, so like… choose thoughtfully, ok? 🔥
• -h, --help — displays help and exits. the classic. the icon. whenever you're lost, she's there 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

ydotool(1) and ydotoold(8) were written by ReimuNotMoe. absolute legend behaviour, honestly.

this manpage was written by bob.hepple@gmail.com but updated since. so it's a collab, and honestly? group project that actually worked out for once 💖

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📜 LICENCE 📜

AGPLv3 — that's the license, bestie. she's open source and she has opinions about it ✨

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

• ydotool(1) — the bestie that talks to this daemon, obviously. go read her page too 🦋
• project site: <https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool> — the mothership, the source of truth, the whole vibe. go look at the repo 👀

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lowkey reminder: this page is dated 2026-01-18 and comes from the System Manager's Manual. so like, if ur reading this from the future, hi, hope the virtual devices are behaving 💅🌸

okay that's the whole page. go forth and daemon responsibly, bestie. periodt. ✨💖🎀