Send keyboard keystrokes in linux

piotr adamcio

6 days ago
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I’m running a very small Debian 12 VM and trying to keep RAM usage low. Here’s exactly what I did:

Installed Debian 12 from the netinstall minimal ISO with only the SSH task selected.

Installed a minimal GUI:

apt install mate-desktop-environment-core lightdm --no-install-recommends

Installed the ScreenConnect (ConnectWise Control) client and its dependencies.

The client starts and works: the GUI is fine, file transfer (send/get files) works, agent in tray icon, chat is ok.
Problem: in client menu Essential → Send keyboard keystrokes, nothing is injected on the remote system (no keystrokes arrive). This feature is important and useful