This might not be useful to most people, but it’s probably really useful for some people. I’ve been doing a bunch of embedded and embedded-ish development for work and otherwise, and it’s useful to not need a separate keyboard connected to the device just to poke graphical applications now and then.
Remotedotool uses a statically compiled libxdo from xdotool, so its only dependencies on the target system are various X11 shared libraries and libreadline.
Neat – I wrote a similar-but-different thing that’s somewhat more geared toward remote-controlling “normal” desktop-like systems, but could perhaps also be useful in the same sorts of scenarios: enthrall
Awesome to prank roommates!