DarkSpectrum

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[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you mean: idk man, its pretty awesome being at the top of the pyramid

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

it would be hilarious if ICE was full of anti trump personnel

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Expecting financially savy individuals to just pay a tax instead of using 'state of residency' clauses to avoid it, is like thinking internet filters will stop people from accessing banned websites.

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

A mass armed peaceful assertion of rights. I like it!

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Beautiful and mesmerising to watch

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

This worked for me:

bash -c "sleep 2 && ydotool type abcde12345"

Thank you! I couldn't find any good instructions for the Command field of custom keyboard shortcuts.

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, unfortunately ydotool has removed their sleep command stating 'this should be your shell's job'. I tried using the standard shell sleep command and used the semicolon to chain commands. Maybe thats not how to use the command field of the custom shortcut.

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

That seems to have worked better, I can now run ydotool commands in terminal. Will a user level service have any specific limitations?

When use this command as a custom keyboard shortcut:

ydotool type abcde12345

It will miss the first few characters and type:

de12345

When I try chaining shell commands to pause and wait before typing, it doesn't work at all:

sleep 2; ydotool type abcde12345

Any ideas on how I could automate ydotool as a keyboard hotkey? Custom shortcut to run a bash script maybe?

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reply Hades, the output of that command is:

/.

/usr

/usr/lib

/usr/lib/systemd

/usr/lib/systemd/user

/usr/lib/systemd/user/ydotoold.service

/usr/local

/usr/local/bin

/usr/local/bin/ydotool

/usr/local/bin/ydotoold

/usr/local/share

/usr/local/share/man

/usr/local/share/man/man1

/usr/local/share/man/man1/ydotool.1.gz

/usr/local/share/man/man8

/usr/local/share/man/man8/ydotoold.8.gz

 

I am a new Linux user and have settled on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS in Wayland. In Windows, I used AutoHotKey to automate the keyboard to type repetitive text strings with a hotkey e.g. pressing Alt+E to type my@email.com

I believe the solution in Linux is to install an application like dotool or ydotool and then create a custom shortcut command. The problem is I cannot get dotool and ydotool to work. I'll document the issues I'm having with ydotool as there seems to be more awareness and support for this application.

I am following the instillation instructions here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1413829/how-can-i-install-and-use-the-latest-ydotool-keyboard-automation-tool-working-o

Everything seems to go fine until I get to this step and get the following error:

sudo systemctl enable ydotoold

Failed to enable unit: Unit file ydotoold.service does not exist.

I came across this issue which suggests it could be a permissions issue on /dev/uinput and tried to the solution provided in that post but I still can't enable ydotoold after a reboot.

Running this command works:

ydotoold --version

v1.0.4-38-g708e96f

But I am stuck here and not sure how to troubleshoot or progress further. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Waterfox is fantastic! I also self host searxng and have it set as the default search engine in waterfox. private search!

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Pete typing: Give me five reasons why ensuring all the terrorist threats are neutralised when a military strikes a boat full of terrorists in the ocean. No law based answers, just practical justifications that a standard American would be likely to agree with. Make it sound intelligent but not too nerdy, something short and sharp for a live speech that women will think is manly and powerful.

GenAI.mil: Sure thing! I can help you with that.....

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Theres only one way to find out and there aint no ctrl-z

 

The main barrier for me transitioning to Linux as my main OS is finding a suitable alternative to AutoHotKey (AHK) on windows. I use AHK for all kinds of automation but haven't found a usable alternative in Wayland.

Thought I'd check here to see if anyone has any suggestions?

 
 

Not sure if appropriate for this community but I found this video, made before Trump took office, to be very much in-line with the reality we are seeing unfold around us today and I just wanted to share it.

 

I have the setting that marks a post read when scrolling. Now I want to automatically hide read posts so I don't see the same content. Is this possible in Sync?

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