What Works & What Does Not
Wayland is designed to close the X11 security holes that allowed one application to spy on another through the desktop. Since AutoKey depended on these security holes to do what it does, AutoKey has some limitations when running under Wayland.
What Works Under Wayland
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Hotkeys
Scripts
What Does Not Work Under Wayland
The “highlevel” API methods are not supported. These were implemented in X11 using the xautomation utility, which is not available under Wayland.
Recording and playing back mouse movements is not supported on Wayland. This was implemented in X11 using the xrecord utility, which is not available under Wayland.
Which Desktops Support Wayland
Updated: March 16, 2026
Desktop / WM |
Wayland Support |
AutoKey Support |
|---|---|---|
GNOME Shell |
✔️ Default |
✔️ |
KDE Plasma |
✔️ Stable |
✔️ |
XFCE |
🚧 Experimental |
|
Cinnamon |
🚧 Experimental |
|
MATE |
🚧 In development |
|
Enlightenment |
🚧 Experimental |