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Remote control requested when using xbindkeys, xdotool on X11

As the title says "Remote control requested when using xbindkeys, xdotool on X11" window shown. It appears the X server is intercepting the xdotool actions with that popup when testing on the command line and silently in the background when used with the xbindkeys program to send its configured actions. This makes the program unusable as even when the permission is granted on command line test the action does not get done. Does anyone have any idea how to get rid of this and allow the xbindkeys and xdotool to function like they do on any other Linux distribution I have tried? Namely press the mouse button and the configured action will be done without fail. 

Re: Remote control requested when using xbindkeys, xdotool on X11

Reply #1 –
Pls provide some details, like:
- what changed since this last worked
- which DE
- which version of the related pkgs
- anything else that can be relevant

artist
Linux is simple; use Artix, or Submit Your System To Evil Malicious D(a)emons

Re: Remote control requested when using xbindkeys, xdotool on X11

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Artist – on
Pls provide some details, like:
- what changed since this last worked
- which DE
- which version of the related pkgs
- anything else that can be relevant

artist

It has never worked it is fresh install using the Plasma KDE 6 latest version available as of yesterday when it was first installed. All other packages are similar the latest versions as of when the install was done. As was stated in the original post it fails silently when used on/in said desktop environment using the X11 server as xbindkeys is designed for. If testing the xdotool on the command line for what was to be the sent command for the xbindkeys sent action then you get that popup requesting permission which then fails to deliver that permission. Which should allow that test for/of the button that would have been pressed to carry out that action that was assigned being tested to successful completion. A pgrep for xbindkeys shows the program loaded as per the script that is executed from/in the KDE autostart system settings module that instructs it to do so upon startup of that desktop environment.

Re: Remote control requested when using xbindkeys, xdotool on X11

Reply #3 –
Testing on different fully updated systems that do not have KDE shows no issue.
Do you perhaps run KDE Connect? That might also be relevant, so try to disable it.
Hopefully a KDE expert can have a look.

artist
Linux is simple; use Artix, or Submit Your System To Evil Malicious D(a)emons

Re: Remote control requested when using xbindkeys, xdotool on X11

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Artist – on
Testing on different fully updated systems that do not have KDE shows no issue.
Do you perhaps run KDE Connect? That might also be relevant, so try to disable it.
Hopefully a KDE expert can have a look.

artist

Removed the kdeconnect it makes zero difference still not working. So just for the hell of it I installed xfce4 to test as you say it works fine in other desktop environments and of course it works perfectly there as it is supposed to. So something in the Artix KDE install is interfering with its functioning. It works perfectly fine in KDE in Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian, Devuan and has for years. So now I go and start the removals of all that excess junk the full install did and get only the kde apps I have/had installed on those systems to see if that allows it to work. Thanks for cluing me in on the different desktop idea I can sometimes get too focused on solving the problem and not checking all the possibilites.

Edit: And I would add the Devuan I now use is as up to date for a Debian based install as you can get for the KDE, version 6.2.4 plasma, frameworks 6.7.2, QT 6.8.0 with the apps at the 24.12 versions. I was just checking the Artix to see if they have an enabled version of the kio-extras package to allow smb connectivity to work. And they have unlike Debian despite the Ubuntu people having done it in early September when Debian started to ship the broken packages and have not fixed it yet. Despite the Ubuntu fix being binary compatible with Debian so all that is needed is a re-compile of that package using the two support libraries needed on the host system compiling it.

Edit2: Well I will be damned since logging into the xfce4 it now works. I have rebooted three times on that test machine and it survives every time. I shall mark it as solved.
 
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