easystroke

Sorry. Easystroke is a mouse-gesture program: hold button, draw various lines or shapes, release button. Triggers any action. Like window minimize, execute command This is the “official” repo but it was abandoned long ago: https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke My first linked repo is me and Claude working to fix build errors and app bugs to keep it running.

> Easystroke is unmaintained. > But there is a modern replacement, https://github.com/jersou/mouse-actions, which works on both X11 and Wayland https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki

This is my main issue, I need full access to input devices and the ability to drop, alter and inject new events. On Windows I fully rely on StrokeIt, it has been a huge improvement for me which I've used for ~15 years. Linux's easystroke [0] is now deprecated (and always was mediocre) and the modern alternative "mouse-actions" [1] is not good at all. I've coded a replacement in Rust+C which works for my simple use-case but it targets X11 and it's unclear for me how I can get low level access to input devices events with Wayland. I've also read something about security getting increased in Wayland so that one does no longer have access to input stuff (unclear to me). Then the nice thing about X11 is the ability to remotely use a X11 session, which apparently isn't possible with Wayland (except for RDP or VNC which isn't what I need). [0] h

How would something like Easystroke [1] need to be implemented for Wayland? Would this have to be inside the compositor as it's like a global hotkey? [1] https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki

For anyone else looking, the parent probably meant 'easystroke': https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke It's likely available from your package manager.