TryCua launches Cua Driver Linux with background computer use and Wayland preview

• trycua's launch thread says Cua Driver now runs on Linux, giving Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and custom agents a way to control real desktop apps through CLI or MCP while the main desktop stays usable.
• trycua's Wayland preview demo shows the Linux port is not just X11 automation, it already includes a preview of multi-window Wayland control with 16 independent cursors.
• trycua's background dev loop demo positions the release as agent QA infrastructure, not just UI playback: Claude Code builds an app, drives the UI, and checks its own work without taking over the foreground terminal.
• trycua's headless SSH demo extends the same stack to remote boxes, where an agent builds a spreadsheet workflow on a machine with no GPU and no attached display.
• trycua's distro and support post adds the practical rollout details: Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04, Rocky 9, and Fedora 41 are supported today, and trycua's availability post links both the repo and blog.

You can browse the repo and read the launch post, but the demos are the interesting bit. trycua's multi-pointer clip shows several synthetic cursors moving at once, the calculator demo keeps the agent terminal frontmost while the agent tests its own UI, and the SSH spreadsheet run pushes the whole thing onto a headless remote Linux box.

TryCua's pitch is straightforward: Linux desktop automation that does not monopolize the operator's screen. trycua's launch thread says agents can drive real apps in the background over CLI or MCP, with X support and Wayland in preview.

That makes the release more interesting than a narrow Claude Code add-on. The same post explicitly names Hermes, Codex, and custom loops, which frames Cua Driver as a reusable control layer for agent stacks rather than a single bundled workflow.

The most eye-catching demo is concurrency. trycua's XFCE demo shows multiple synthetic pointers dragging text at the same time while the main window stays frontmost.

Wayland is still marked preview, but the demo claim is already ambitious: 16 cursors across 16 windows, each moving independently. That is a much stronger statement than basic Linux support, because Wayland automation is usually where desktop-control claims get squishy.

In the calculator example, Claude Code writes the app, opens the calculator UI, and QA checks the result while the terminal remains in front. The useful detail is not the calculator, it is the shape of the loop: code generation, UI manipulation, and verification in one run.

A second demo moves the same pattern onto a remote Linux machine with no GPU and no display attached. According to trycua's SSH post, the agent builds a working budget inside a real spreadsheet app over SSH, which pushes Cua Driver past local desktop automation into remote ops territory.

The release ships with four named distro targets:

• Debian 12, per trycua's support note
• Ubuntu 22.04, per the same support note
• Rocky 9, per the same support note
• Fedora 41, per the same support note

That same post says the code is open source and invites contributions for more distro support and issue reports. trycua's availability post is also where the company points people to the repo and launch blog, which is the closest thing in the thread to an official handoff from demos to docs.