Need help getting ydotool/ydotoold to run under Wayland Ubuntu 24.04. Gnome

[MWH-Rookie]

Dear all

I am still a rookie and need help to get ydotool running. I want to use this with Ubuntu 24.04. (wayland/Gnome). I read several instructions and set up a system service with this configuration:

sudo cat /etc/systemd/system/ydotoold.service

[Unit]
Description=Ydotool Daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ydotoold --socket-path=/tmp/.ydotool_socket --socket-own=1000:1000
#Restart=always
User=martin

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I reloaded daemons and (re)started the service.

Also I found advice that permissions for the socket under /tmp are important. For this I added a udev rule like this: sudo cat /etc/udev/rules.d/80-uinput.rules

## ydotoold fix
##     https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool/issues/25#issuecomment-535842993
KERNEL=="uinput", GROUP="input", MODE="0660", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput"

and I did this: sudo usermod -a -G users $USER

Here are some more information: ls -l /dev/uinput /tmp/.ydotool_socket crw-rw---- 1 root input 10, 223 Mai 23 22:16 /dev/uinput srw------- 1 martin martin 0 Mai 24 11:36 /tmp/.ydotool_socket

So, this is for context. When I now try to start ydotool without root permissions, I get this: YDOTOOL_SOCKET="/tmp/.ydotool_socket" ydotool key 125:1 32:1 32:0 125:0; ydotool: notice: ydotoold backend unavailable (may have latency+delay issues)

and as root: sudo YDOTOOL_SOCKET="/tmp/.ydotool_socket" ydotool key 125:1 32:1 32:0 125:0; failed to connect socket `/tmp/.ydotool_socket': Connection refused Please check if ydotoold is running.

But: ps -ax | grep ydo 14252 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ydotoold --socket-path=/tmp/.ydotool_socket --socket-own=1000:1000 15065 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto ydo

Can you help me? I am kind of at my wits end with this.

[Mutisk]

Not sure what your issue might be. I got version 1.0.4 to work on Fedora 41 without any udev hacks. I just systemctl edit --full ydevtool as root to add -o 1000:1000 reflecting my uid/gid, and start the service.

Then in a kde terminal I can do:

$> export YDOTOOL_SOCKET=/tmp/.ydotool_socket
id -u     # verify user id
1000

$> ss -l | grep ydotool   # verify process holding socket.
u_dgr UNCONN 0      0                                     /tmp/.ydotool_socket

$> ls -lnh /tmp/.ydotool_socket    # verify socket perms
srw-------. 1 1000 1000 0 Jun  1 15:12 /tmp/.ydotool_socket

$> ydotool type -d 500 itjustworks

[unique-EJ]

Not sure what the issue is. I have Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) too and it worked with:

sudo apt install scdoc;
cd ~/Downloads/;
git clone https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool.git && {
  cd ydotool; mkdir build; cd build && {
    cmake .. && make -j `nproc`;
  };
};
sudo make install;
systemctl daemon-reload;
systemctl --user enable ydotoold;
systemctl --user start ydotoold.service;

@Mutisk , @MWH-Rookie , @VinSmokeY

ydotool developers should put the final 4 command lines of this into the README.md file to enable more people to understand like they say that the rewritten code will do.

Please read this!

[toneman77]

Not sure what the issue is. I have Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) too and it worked with:

sudo apt install scdoc;
cd ~/Downloads/;
git clone https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool.git && {
  cd ydotool; mkdir build; cd build && {
    cmake .. && make -j `nproc`;
  };
};
sudo make install;
systemctl daemon-reload;
systemctl --user enable ydotoold;
systemctl --user start ydotoold.service;

@Mutisk , @MWH-Rookie , @VinSmokeY

ydotool developers should put the final 4 command lines of this into the README.md file to enable more people to understand like they say that the rewritten code will do.

Please read this!

I tried your approach on a fresh, updated ubuntu 24.04:

...all your instructions...
tone@tonestux ~/d/y/build (master)> systemctl --user start ydotoold
tone@tonestux ~/d/y/build (master)> ydotool
Usage: ydotool <cmd> <args>
Available commands:
  click
  mousemove
  type
  key
  debug
  bakers
  stdin
Use environment variable YDOTOOL_SOCKET to specify daemon socket.
tone@tonestux ~/d/y/build (master)> ydotool mousemove --absolute -x 100 -y 100
failed to connect socket `/home/tone/.ydotool_socket': No such file or directory
Please check if ydotoold is running.
tone@tonestux ~/d/y/build (master) [2]> ps faux | grep ydo
tone       87358  0.0  0.0   9656  2412 pts/1    S+   16:11   0:00  |   |   \_ grep --color=auto ydo
tone       87065  0.0  0.0   2684  1564 ?        Ss   16:11   0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/ydotoold

Anything else I have to do?