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  1. ydotool (send fake keyboard/mouse events to the kernel)
  2. ydotool is an automation tool, similar to xdotool, but it doesn't
  3. require X. It can be used to send input to console or wayland
  4. applications, as well as X.
  5. ydotool works differently from xdotool. xdotool sends X events
  6. directly to X server, while ydotool uses the uinput framework of Linux
  7. kernel to emulate an input device.
  8. To use ydotool, the user must have read/write access to /dev/uinput.
  9. On Slackware, this means ydotool would need root access. This
  10. SlackBuild installs ydotool setuid root, but only users in the
  11. 'console' group can run it. Since 'console' users can already use the
  12. real keyboard and mouse, it doesn't seem like a huge security risk to
  13. let them send fake events. If this bothers you, run the script with
  14. SETUID=no in the environment to disable it.