Use dotool or ydotool to support Wayland?

[cyanescent]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I am switching to Wayland, and the gestures with touchegg+touché working on X11 only was the single thing preventing me from switching. However, I have noticed that some gestures still work in Wayland (show or switching workspaces from key shortcut for instance, or sending a command), but other not (closing Wayland windows).

Describe the solution you'd like

The "Wayland windows not closing" issue is solved when sending the command: echo key alt+F4 | dotool from this package.
The second xdotool-alternative "ydotool" should also work.

Therefore, every non-working preset in Touché can be replaced by an equivalent dotool command to work in Wayland.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have tried fusuma as an alternative to touchegg, but this is not relevant to my problem.
I have also tried but failed to install ydotool, so I have used dotool instead.

Additional context

I am using touchegg+touché from the Wayland session of KDE Plasma 6 on Endeavour OS (arch).

[JoseExposito]

You can replace most of the actions with keyboard shortcuts and tools like ydotool. However, there are some features that won't work. The most noticeable one is animations.

Wayland is a bit of trial and error and at the moment, there is not a good way to make Touchégg work... Unfortunately, I don't think there is going to be a solution in the future :S

[cyanescent]

I understand the Wayland headache is not that easily overcome.
Indeed, the animation to visualize / confirm the gesture is a really nice feature.
Thank you for your reply!

[genderneutralnoun]

I really, really don't mean to be rude, but... why can't there just be wayland support without the animations?

[aindriu80]

A reduced feature set on Wayland would be most appreciated compared to no Wayland support

[KAGEYAM4]

What are your thougths on https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma ? Any difference compared to touchegg?

[cyanescent]

What are your thougths on https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma ? Any difference compared to touchegg?

I am currently using it on Wayland. I would say it is more DIY: no GUI, no animation, requires to use extensions or external packages and a bit of fiddling to set it up correctly, but it does the job eventually.

[genderneutralnoun]

I tried using fusuma as well, but it was a while ago and I vaguely remember it never working no matter what I tried. Mainly due to the fact that I wanted it for touchscreen gestures, while fusuma is targeted at touchpad gestures. I use a Surface Pro 8 I got for cheap with Fedora Linux on it to draw, and as a tablet computer, I need to be able to have custom touchscreen gestures, mainly to enter and exit fullscreen for my drawing programs easily without having to have a keyboard handy.