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.
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?
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
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.