I stumbled accross an interesting "Tip & Trick" here!
Which made me wonder ... is there an "xdotool" equivalent for use within a "pure" Wayland environment?
Or does that question again reveal my misundertanding of the Wayland "paradigm"?
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There is a ydotool for Wayland. I haven't tried it because I don't have a Wayland desktop (and probably won't until UM offers one). What I've heard is that it has a different interface and doesn't (yet) have as rich a set of features as xdotool. As an aside, the first version of it required sudo because of Wayland's stricter security policy. But the latest version uses a system daemon launched once so that calling ydotool doesn't require sudo.
FWIW, my hope is that if/when UM goes Wayland the devs do so incrementally; i.e., offering a choice of X11 session or Wayland session on the DM login screen, for at least one LTS before moving to Wayland only. This will give users the breathing room to find what Wayland breaks and work with maintainers to fix things or identify alternatives.
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