dpowers 0.1.6

Unified Interface for automatic interaction

Dpowers is a python package to help you automate interactions with your operating system. It combines several backends into a unified interface and allows to pick the backend most suited to the specific use case.

For documentation and details see https://dpowers.readthedocs.io.

Supported operating systems:

• This project follows a modular approach where is is easy to add new components ("powers"), as well as new backends for aleady existing powers. This makes it cross-platform by nature. The support for a specific OS depends mostly on which backends have been implemented yet.

• As I am using Linux Mint myself, I make sure that all features run smoothly on there. Other Linux systems (particularly Debian-based) should already be supported by the implemented backends as well, but haven't been tested yet.

• Windows and Mac haven't been tested either. They should be supported via the pynput backend already. As of now, I don't have any plans to add more backends for these systems since I almost never use them.

• Termux on Android is supported as well. I have two everyday use cases, where the Dpowers allow me to run the same python script on both Linux desktop and my Android phone. However, Termux lacks access to many Android functions, which is why I prefer Tasker for most of my Android automization. Tasker allows using Termux as a plugin, so it can also run python and Dpowers scripts.

If you have question about a specific part of this project, if you want to try it out on another OS, or add your own backends, you are welcome to post issues here on github.

Ideas for the future:

• Add complete support for Wayland. Keyboard and mouse support is already available via the evdev backend, but window interactions are still relying on the X Server.
• Add automatic detections of the OS / platform properties (e.g. wether X Server or Wayland active), and automatically select the suiting backend. Currently, automatic selection of backends is only supported on Linux.
• Extend the documentation. (Reference for all commands, more examples, tutorials.)