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use clap::{Parser, Subcommand};
#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
#[command(
name = "wdotool",
version,
about = "xdotool-compatible automation for Wayland",
disable_help_subcommand = true
)]
pub struct Cli {
/// Force a specific backend (libei, wlroots, kde, gnome, uinput).
#[arg(long, global = true)]
pub backend: Option<String>,
/// Enable debug logging.
#[arg(short, long, global = true)]
pub verbose: bool,
#[command(subcommand)]
pub command: Command,
}
#[derive(Subcommand, Debug)]
pub enum Command {
/// Press and release a key chain (e.g. "ctrl+c").
Key {
/// Release stuck modifiers (Ctrl/Shift/Alt/Super/AltGr) before the op.
/// Approximates xdotool's --clearmodifiers — unlike xdotool we can't
/// observe current modifier state on Wayland, so this unconditionally
/// releases the standard set.
#[arg(long)]
clearmodifiers: bool,
chain: String,
},
/// Press a key chain without releasing.
Keydown {
#[arg(long)]
clearmodifiers: bool,
chain: String,
},
/// Release a previously pressed key chain.
Keyup {
#[arg(long)]
clearmodifiers: bool,
chain: String,
},
/// Type a literal string.
Type {
/// Delay between characters in milliseconds.
#[arg(long, default_value_t = 12)]
delay: u64,
/// Read the text from a file instead of the positional arg.
/// Use `-` to read from stdin. Mutually exclusive with the text arg.
#[arg(long, conflicts_with = "text")]
file: Option<String>,
/// See `key --clearmodifiers`.
#[arg(long)]
clearmodifiers: bool,
text: Option<String>,
},
/// Move the mouse to (x, y) or by (dx, dy) with --relative.
Mousemove {
#[arg(long)]
relative: bool,
/// Treat (x, y) as relative to this output's origin instead of
/// the global compositor coordinate space. Use the name from
/// `wdotool outputs` (e.g. `DP-1`, `HDMI-A-1`). Conflicts with
/// `--relative`. Currently only the wlroots backend enumerates
/// outputs; other backends error if you pass `--output`.
#[arg(long, conflicts_with = "relative")]
output: Option<String>,
x: i32,
y: i32,
},
/// Press and release a mouse button by xdotool index (1=left, 2=middle, 3=right).
Click { button: u32 },
/// Press a mouse button.
Mousedown { button: u32 },
/// Release a mouse button.
Mouseup { button: u32 },
/// Scroll. Positive dy scrolls down; positive dx scrolls right.
Scroll { dx: f64, dy: f64 },
/// List windows matching the filters. With no filter, lists all
/// windows. Exits with status 1 if no windows matched, status 0
/// otherwise (matches xdotool's behavior so `if wdotool search ...`
/// works in shell scripts).
Search {
/// Substring (or regex with --regex) matched against the
/// window title.
#[arg(long)]
name: Option<String>,
/// Substring (or regex with --regex) matched against the
/// Wayland app_id (the closest equivalent to X11's WM_CLASS).
#[arg(long)]
class: Option<String>,
/// Match windows owned by this exact PID. Backends that can't
/// resolve a PID for a window will never match this filter.
#[arg(long)]
pid: Option<u32>,
/// Treat --name and --class values as regular expressions
/// instead of plain substrings. Without this flag, the
/// patterns are escaped before matching, so `Fire.fox` matches
/// only that literal string.
#[arg(long)]
regex: bool,
/// Case-insensitive matching for --name and --class. Works in
/// both substring and regex modes.
#[arg(long)]
ignore_case: bool,
/// Combine filters with OR instead of the default AND. Without
/// this, a window must match every set filter. With this, a
/// window matching at least one set filter is included.
/// Mirrors xdotool's `--any`. Conflicts with `--all`.
#[arg(long, conflicts_with = "all")]
any: bool,
/// Combine filters with AND. This is already the default; the
/// flag exists so xdotool scripts that explicitly pass `--all`
/// keep working unchanged.
#[arg(long)]
all: bool,
},
/// Print the active window's id.
Getactivewindow,
/// Print the current pointer position as `x:N y:N` (xdotool's
/// default format). Exits 1 on backends that can't read pointer
/// position (libei, wlroots, uinput); KDE and GNOME both can.
Getmouselocation,
/// List the compositor's outputs (monitors). One row per output:
/// name, x, y, width, height, scale. Pass `--json` for structured
/// output. Currently only the wlroots backend enumerates outputs;
/// others exit 0 with empty output.
Outputs {
/// Emit JSON instead of the default tab-separated table.
#[arg(long)]
json: bool,
},
/// Activate (raise + focus) a window by id.
Windowactivate { id: String },
/// Close a window by id.
Windowclose { id: String },
/// Print the title of the window with the given id.
Getwindowname { id: String },
/// Print the PID of the window with the given id. Exits 1 if the
/// backend can't resolve a PID for that window (some compositors
/// don't expose it).
Getwindowpid { id: String },
/// Print the app_id of the window with the given id. This is the
/// Wayland equivalent of xdotool's WM_CLASS classname. Exits 1 if
/// the window has no app_id set.
Getwindowclassname { id: String },
/// Print the frame position and size of a window by id. Output
/// matches xdotool's default format ("Window <id>" header,
/// position, geometry). Exits 1 if the id doesn't exist or the
/// active backend can't read window geometry (libei / wlroots /
/// uinput); KDE and GNOME both can.
Getwindowgeometry { id: String },
/// Show detected environment and backend capabilities.
Info,
/// Print a structured capabilities report (schema v1) as JSON.
/// This is the machine-readable cousin of `info`. The schema is
/// documented at `docs/capabilities-schema.json` and is the
/// contract that wflows.com and other downstream tools consume.
Capabilities,
/// Print an environment + backend availability report. Use this
/// when a wdotool command isn't behaving the way you expect; the
/// output names the missing piece (portal? group? extension?) and
/// prints the fix command. Pass `--copy` to send the report to
/// the clipboard, `--json` for machine-readable output.
Diag {
/// Emit machine-readable JSON instead of markdown.
#[arg(long)]
json: bool,
/// Copy the markdown report to the clipboard via wl-copy
/// (falls back to xclip).
#[arg(long)]
copy: bool,
},
}