stdin command to allow freeform keyboard input

[mnutt]

Thanks for creating ydotool, it has been very helpful to me! Background on my use case: I have a raspberry pi attached to a touchscreen, sitting on my desk next to my regular computer. The touchscreen works fine for mouse input but I don't have space for a second keyboard for the pi, and the on-screen keyboard is painful and something like Synergy seems pretty heavy. I recently switched to Wayland.

I know ydotool is typically more targeted at scripting, but I found it worked pretty well to just accept keyboard input from stdin. It's not 100% 1:1 mapping (you can't currently send ctrl-c to wayland, there are probably some other edge cases) but it works well enough for how I use it: I ssh to the pi and start ydotool stdin to use my main keyboard to type on the pi.

I completely understand if this isn't a direction you want to go with the project, but wanted to mention it in case you or others found it useful.

todo

• removing the debug statements, at least by default
• the mappings are a superset of the ones in tool_type and could probably be merged together

[Paiusco]

it'd be nice to also add more info into the help and man on how to better use it @mnutt