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There's not really a stable way to do that in Wayland at the moment. This post lists some options, but they're not guaranteed to work in any particular compositor: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/786856/how-to-send-keyboard-strokes-programmatically-like-sendkeys-in-windows-to-a
I wrote you a long comment from my mobile, and it looks like it was lost.
Can you elaborate on that topic? I use ydotool for this, I’m on Sway.
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Oh bummer. Anyway I've made an earlier post from my previous efforts (https://lemmy.world/post/49303063) where I also tested ydotool. At that time there was a known bug in ydotool that prevented absolute mousemove from working properly. The issue is still open on github it seems.
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