#ydotool
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #ydotool from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-02 10:58 UTCNo measured public usage for #ydotool in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-02 10:58 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #ydotool.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-02 10:58 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 6 public posts (spanning ~18590 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (5) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.5
Top of the latest posts
I'm looking into some #automation on #ubuntu #gnome desktop. I figured I'd be able to do everything using #dbus. It works great for media control but not so much for virtual desktop / window management. I can use #wmctrl to nativate between
@TicklishHoneyBee Right! After much mucking about I managed to get ydotool working. The package from the ubuntu mirrors was very old, so I installed it from the binaries on github. Added a systemd service to run ydotoold as my user, and set
Okay, time to summon DuckDuckFedi. I have a program that is running on my sway session (so, Wayland, more precisely XWayland). I use ydotool to run some keystrokes. Everything works fine as-is, but it means that I can't use the computer for
#ydotool across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #ydotool straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/ydotool