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Simulating keys breaks on Wayland #42

@BramVanBerkel

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@BramVanBerkel

Hi! I recently changed distro to Fedora 42, which uses Wayland by default. When trying to simulate a keypress I get the popup window seen in the screenshot. After some googling this looks like a known issue, but i couldn't figure out how to solve it myself.

Links to thread with the same issue:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3194
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/todays-update-of-mutter-breaks-simulating-key-presses-with-xdotool/98216/4
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-39-keeps-spaming-confirmation-remote-desktop-window/98323

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