ydotoold(8)

NAME

ydotoold - 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

ydotool(1)

Project site: <https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool>