ydotoold - Man Page
daemon for ydotool(1)
Synopsis
ydotoold [OPTION...]
Description
ydotool lets you programmatically (or manually) simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, etc. It does this by writing directly to /dev/uinput so it generally needs to run as root.
When ydotool(1) runs and creates a virtual input device, it will take some time for your graphical environment (eg X11/Wayland) to recognize and enable the virtual input device. (Usually done by udev)
If the delay is too short, the virtual input device may not be recognized & enabled by the graphical environment in time.
In order to solve this problem, the ydotoold background service holds a persistent virtual device, and accepts input from ydotool(1). When ydotoold(1) is unavailable, ydotool(1) will work without it.
Options
- --socket-path arg <path>
Socket path (default: /tmp/.ydotool_socket)
- --socket-perm arg <perms>
Socket permission (default: 0600)
Author
ydotool(1) and ydotoold(8) were written by ReimuNotMoe.
This man page by bob.hepple@gmail.com
Licence
AGPLv3
See Also
Project site: <https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool>