# wtype

**Repository Path**: mirrors_emersion/wtype

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: wtype
- **Description**: xdotool type for wayland
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-10-22
- **Last Updated**: 2026-07-05

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# wtype
xdotool type for wayland

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## Building

```
meson build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install
```

## Usage

```
# Type unicode characters
wtype ∇⋅∇ψ = ρ
```

To press/release modifiers, `-M`/`-m` can be used respectively.

```
# Press Ctrl+C
wtype -M ctrl c -m ctrl
```


To press/release a named key (as given by [xkb_keysym_get_name](https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/group__keysyms.html)),
`-P`/`-p` can be used.

```
# Press and release the Left key
wtype -P left -p left
```
Note that when wtype terminates, all the pressed keys/modifiers get released, as the compositor destroys the associated
virtual keyboard object. To help performing a more complicated sequence of key presses, `-s` can be used to insert delays into the stream of key events.

```
# Hold the Right key for 1000ms
wtype -P right -s 1000 -p right
```