Is there a tool that pastes from clipboard one character at a time?

Question

Is there a tool that pastes from clipboard one character at a time? Something that would simulate a real person typing, like in the movies ;)

Of course I am referring to X applications, preferably KDE, but others will do also.

UPDATE - I need to type to GUI applications, not the terminal.

Answer 1

xsel | sed 's/./usleep 200000,str &,/g' | xargs -d, xte

"xte" is part of xautomation. xclip is another alternative to xsel.

That would work for letters, but probably not many others as that generates key events based on strings.

Answer 2

You could try a keyboard macro utility like autokey. It's scriptable in python so has access to the X clipboard.