OK, so I’m a heavy user of the native pipe in R which goes like this “|>”. This is particularly painful to type on French keyboard, so on Plasma X11, I had a little script using xdotools to input |> when I pressed Ctrl+$. Very comfortable!

With the switch to Plasma 6, I’m now using Wayland because one needs to live with one time, I guess. But this means I lost the ability to use xdotools to do that.

I tried wtype, which seemed easy, but it doesn’t seem to work in Plasma (and is not maintained any more?).

I tried ydotools, which is harder to set up (it requires running a deamon as root, which is not convenient and also defeats the security purpose of Wayland I guess? Maybe not, I’m no expert). The problem with ydotools is that it doesn’t seem to be aware of the keyboard layout, and since my keyboard is French AZERTY, it outputs gibberish instead of, well, |>.

So, here’s my question for you guys: do you know of any other (if possible, easy as wtype is/was) way to setup a string input associated to a shortcut?

  • @[email protected]
    5•3 months ago

    This may sound convoluted, but you could create a custom command in Keyboard->Shortcuts (Add New -> Command or Script) that uses ydotool (uses a service) that is basically ydotool type "|>" and then create a shortcut of Ctrl+$ for it.

    Edit: I just tried this, it seems like custom shortcuts aren’t working?

    Sorry, may need to submit a bug report.

    • @[email protected]
      OP
      1•3 months ago

      Yeah, I tried this way, but due to the issue with keyboard layout, ydotool does not output |>, but some gibberish instead. I couldn’t reverse-engineer how to make it output a proper |>.