Support for Wayland

A series of errors occurred while trying to import the pyautogui module, but only while using Wayland.

>>> import pyautogui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/kjohnston/Python/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/Xlib/xauth.py", line 43, in __init__
    raw = open(filename, 'rb').read()
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/kjohnston/.Xauthority'

Can Wayland be supported? Or is Wayland so vastly different from X11 that a whole new module is needed? If it’s the latter, I’d like to modify the README to include X11 in the dependencies and then close this issue.

Thanks for creating this awesome module! (And pyperclip too!)

[mystiquewolf]

Wayland is the default login in Ubuntu 21.04 and Wayland will be the default Wayland login in Kubuntu 21.10. Wayland is also the default for Fedora.

Please see: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439971 https://gitlab.com/dogtail/dogtail https://gitlab.gnome.org/ofourdan/gnome-ponytail-daemon https://github.com/autokey/autokey/issues/87 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-July/034459.html

[tbm]

Can this ticket be reopened? Wayland will only get more important over time.

I just tried to use pyautogui and it didn’t work. Having an open issue about lack of support might reduce future duplicate reports.

I read @KyleWJohnston’s argument against supporting Wayland. I don’t know how pyautogui works but could you use these other tools as a backend in pyautogui? In any case, if there are no plans to support Wayland, I think this should at least be documented since you claim to support “Linux” (maybe that should be changed to X11).