Wayland Support for `PyAutoGUI` actions

[sagedemage]

I noticed that SeleniumBase only works on X11 on Linux. Is there any plan to support Wayland in the future? I believe the problem is that SeleniumBase relies on PyAutoGUI which only supports X11. The PyAutoGUI repository is not being maintained since the last commit was 2 years ago. I am wondering if there is a better replacement for PyAutoGUI that works on Wayland.

[mdmintz]

Wayland support is dependent on the PyAutoGUI dependency, which doesn't currently support Wayland (only X11).
However, the maintainer of PyAutoGUI just commented last week that he's working on Wayland support:

asweigart/pyautogui#936 (comment)

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PyAutoGUI is still the best solution for controlling the mouse. (I'm assuming that's what you're trying to run in Wayland?)

Unless you know of another popular tool for controlling the mouse, waiting for the maintainer of PyAutoGUI to make an update is still our best bet.

Related: https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277?permalink_comment_id=4701746
"Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!"

[sagedemage]

That is good to hear that the maintainer of PyAutoGUI is working on Wayland support. I can wait for PyAutoGUI to support Wayland.

[KavyanshKhaitan2]

I have a feeling I have been summoned. I am the one who created the PR that implements Wayland support on PyAutoGUI.

[mdmintz]

@KavyanshKhaitan2 If you had opened that PR a few months earlier, I would've asked Al Sweigart about it in person at PyCon2025.

[KavyanshKhaitan2]

@KavyanshKhaitan2 If you had opened that PR a few months earlier, I would've asked Al Sweigart about it in person at PyCon2025.

I dont live in the US unfortunately ;c

Also the PR was opened on 20th September, so not really a few months ago. About 2 and a half weeks ago tho.

[mdmintz]

@KavyanshKhaitan2 If you had opened that PR a few months earlier, I would've asked Al Sweigart about it in person at PyCon2025.

I dont live in the US unfortunately ;c

Also the PR was opened on 20th September, so not really a few months ago. About 2 and a half weeks ago tho.

I think you misunderstood. I would've asked Al Sweigart about Wayland support for PyAutoGUI in person at PyCon2025 if you had opened the PR about it in the PyAutoGUI GitHub repo before PyCon2025.

[KavyanshKhaitan2]

@KavyanshKhaitan2 If you had opened that PR a few months earlier, I would've asked Al Sweigart about it in person at PyCon2025.

I dont live in the US unfortunately ;c

Also the PR was opened on 20th September, so not really a few months ago. About 2 and a half weeks ago tho.

I think you misunderstood. I would've asked Al Sweigart about Wayland support for PyAutoGUI in person at PyCon2025 if you had opened the PR about it in the PyAutoGUI GitHub repo before PyCon2025.

Oh. I definitely misunderstood it then.
Also, quote-ception!

[mdmintz]

According to https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/07263b56/docs/ozone_overview.md, it may be possible to spin up Chrome using X11 (even in a Wayland environment) by using --ozone-platform=x11.

With SeleniumBase, there's a chromium_arg for adding such options. Eg:

chromium_arg="--ozone-platform=x11"