Bad xdotool performance

[codebold]

Dear all, I am experiencing very large processing times when i use xdotool. Just printing the output to stdout is not affected in the same way. I have seen the other alternatives ydotool and so on, but those tools work in the console only, right? Would it helpful to simulate single key presses instead of using the type function?

[jankulma]

same issue

fixed by switching to default en keyboard layout

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/nv1nyq/comment/h11g0ua/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

The problem was worse with Gnome and KDE and with alternative keyboard layouts (it sounds like the keyboard map is getting reloaded over and over), and there's a couple comments on bug #281 about the problem going away if they switched to an XFCE session.

[ideasman42]

I have seen the other alternatives ydotool and so on, but those tools work in the console only, right?

Note that ydotool works for graphical applications, including X11 & Wayland.