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		Tajnymag 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtf... I'd say the problematic part is not capturing the desktop but injecting controls into it. Proper universal support for simulated input is still missing.

torginus 6 days ago [–]

I have not used Wayland specifically, but did do this for X11, Windows, Qt, too much stuff to count... It usually takes the form of an api call like

DispatchEvent(&MouseEvent{MOUSE_L, 1345, 3432});

It's almost literally always this

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