Latest xdotool version in Ubuntu 22 repos silently fails on Wayland :sob: apt can't upgrade it, and manual doesn't help about xdotool HOT 2 OPEN

Forgot to mention I'm using version 3.20160805.1 which I got from apt install xdotool.

When I did apt upgrade and apt upgrade xdotool, I got:

sudo apt upgrade xdotool
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
xdotool is already the newest version (1:3.20160805.1-4).
...etc.

Can anything be done to get a more recent version into these repos?

from xdotool.

I've now downloaded the 3.20211022.1 release. I'm glad to see a prominent warning about Wayland at the top of the README, but it's still missing from the man page. Someone wouldn't see the README if they're only running xdotool as an end-user.

Okay, now I've been able to run the latest version, it doesn't fail silently anymore 👍
I get Segmentation fault (core dumped) as output which is much better. However, there is still room for improvement. Instead of this error, it could simply output "Wayland is not supported", with a link to the README which already contains all the relevant info.

Note: xdotool --help still works fine with no error.

from xdotool.