Desktop automation for GNOME Wayland via MCP. Take screenshots, manage windows, and inject keyboard/mouse input from AI assistants like Claude Code.
Desktop automation for GNOME Wayland via MCP. Take screenshots, manage windows, and inject keyboard/mouse input from AI assistants like Claude Code. Exposed over MCP by the gnome desktop mcp mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Screenshots — The Screenshots tool exposed by this serverWindows — The Windows tool exposed by this serverInput — The Input tool exposed by this serverUtility — The Utility tool exposed by this serverInstallation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at gnome-desktop-mcp on PyPI and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Gnome Desktop MCP's toolset — Screenshots, Windows, Input and 1 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by sbuysse; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Gnome Desktop MCP's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Screenshots | The Screenshots tool exposed by this server. |
| Windows | The Windows tool exposed by this server. |
| Input | The Input tool exposed by this server. |
| Utility | The Utility tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"desktop-automation": {
"command": "gnome-desktop-mcp"
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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