Questions tagged [xdotool]
a command line tool that can simulate X11 keyboard input and mouse activity and manipulate windows
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What is the Difference Between xdotool getactive window and xdotool getwindowfocus
The commands xdotool getactivewindow and xdotool getwindowfocus return the exact same output. What is the difference between the two?
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xdotool key ctrl+c does not stop
I am trying to make a bash script which attaches to a tmux session, and uses ctrl+c in each tab to terminate it. Due to the nature of the commands run in the tmux session, a tmux kill command would ...
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How to get current window class name from script?
In my script I want to do different things depending on current active application. How can I get currently active window class name?
There is very similar question: xdotool: How to test if current ...
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xdotool returning different output when executed from crontab [duplicate]
So I was making a script that monitors my app usage. It does so by running a cronjob every minute, and cronjob in question checks which window is focused on and increments its counter by 1.
Other ...
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How can read the content of the active window?
I am trying to create a bash script that selects the content of the active window, copies the content to the clipboard, and saves the content to a file. This file then gets read by some text editor, ...
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xdotool command chaining
I'd like to pause the vlc player by sending the space key to its main window.
What I tried is :
xdotool search --class vlc key space
And
xdotool search --classname vlc key space
That didn't work. ...
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Run a script when mouse is idle
I want to run a command like xdotool 9999 0 after the mouse has been idle for some time. The goal is to get the mouse out of the way - I like to use my keyboard only, and the mouse often causes ...
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xdotool: how to switch to specific tab within a particular firefox window
let's say I have 20 tabs open across 2 Firefox windows, the URLs for which i want to save to a file. I could do it manually (with/without firefox tricks such as % <string> as suggested by @...
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Force xdotool to use XTEST rather than XSendEvent
So I wrote a script that will send a repeated . keypress to a window of my desire. Mostly a wrapper around
value=`xdotool selectwindow`
[..]
xdotool key --window $value --delay 84 --repeat 50000 ...
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xdotool get to work with windowsfocus and sync option to type correctly
I am trying to send to GUI programs lines stored in txt files, which contains
2>&1 <<
via xdotool.
My current script bases on
xdotool type --window $steam_window --delay 0.8 --...
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Focus the first Window Where pcmanfm is Running
From the command line, what is the best way to locate the first window where pcmanfm is running, and then give that window focus?
pcmanfm does not showcase it's application name on the title bar of ...
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Unable to use my mouse with automation applications like xdotool
So, I just installed Ubuntu as a dual boot system with windows 10 on my PC. I installed xdotool on it and proceeded to use it. I tried "xdotool mousemove 0 0" but nothing happened. My mouse ...
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xdotool. Numpad arrows selecting text instead of just moving caret
I have a problem with xdotool. I have shortcuts binded to arrow keys, so I can't use them. I want to use numpad ones instead. But numpad arrows all acting like if Shift modifier is pressed, they ...
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What window_ids do xdotool return after searching leafpad?
I run xdotool search --pid <pid> for leafpad, and its return three window_ids, where only the last one is correct. What does other mean?
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Simple way to query which monitor is currently focused
I'm wondering if there is a tool which can query which monitor is currently focused.
I'd like to have a script which changes the wallpaper on the monitor I am currently on (using xwallpaper). From ...
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How to map a key to a sequence of key and combo, including that key?
I tried to use dxhd with xdotool to prepend each key with Ctrl+G, then type that key, and hit another key, like so
#!/bin/sh
# @{a-z}
xdotool key ctrl+g
xdotool type {a-z}
sleep 1
xdotool key Tab
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Raspbian running headless doing scripted procedures on a internet page using text browser
I am somewhere between a new and intermediate linux user.
I am setting up a local network for a small group, and I need to configure an automatic sign-in to a webportal when internet connectivity is ...
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Xdotools help with Kiosk
I have a PI set up in Kiosk mode. What I want to do with is is have it reload a site when a button is pushed on the key board. I have tried to use a timer with CTRL+W and tried to use alt+back arrow. ...
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How do you make a Bash script repeatedly run while holding down left mouse button?
So, I have a command (xdotool click --delay 40 1) I'm using to repeatedly click the left mouse button. As of now, the script is set up like this:
mouse="$(xinput --list | awk -F 'id=|\\[' '/mouse|...
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Is it possible to get the screen/monitor name where a specific application is displayed on?
I would like to find out what screen/monitor (not desktop) a GUI application is displayed on.
For example: my mail client is running on my third desktop, which is displayed on my second monitor ("...
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xdotool - Qt: failed to retrieve the virtual modifier names from XKB
I seem to be unable to make xdotool work. I'm trying to emulate keyboard shortcuts as Super+Left via external output. I looked it up and xdotool seems to do exactly that, emulate keyboard strokes. But ...
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xdotool requiring matching all options
with xdotool I want to identify that dialog box that appears when you use a master password with Firefox.
I tried this command:
xdotool search --all --name "Password Required - Mozilla Firefox&...
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How to type anything with xdotool?
I have some input field of printable ASCII characters, excluding whitespace, that I'd like to pass to xdotool to type as if typed by keyboard.
My attempts:
echo "type lol lol" | xdotool - ...
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xdotool not working over AWS ubuntu instance
I am working on bash script to automate w3m browser using xdotool I hosted this script in aws ubuntu instance but when i am executing this script i am getting below error
Error: Can't open display: (...
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Move window from other (inactive) desktop to current desktop
When using this to fetch window from another desktop to current desktop (which is #0), nothing happens until I focus the desktop with that window - then window immediately moves to the desktop 0.
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Kwin, xdotool, and wmctrl
I have been trying to do something similar to what described in this thread and create commands to arrange windows in KDE beyond the quicktile functions currently available. I love them, but they are ...
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xdotool not working with sxhkd?
ctrl + 2
xdotool type Test Message
Added the above line to sxhkdrc with no effect. Using different commands works, but for some reason any xdotool command doesn't work... If i run that command in ...
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Can't have the --window option work with xdotool click
I'm trying to make an autoclicker (for a farm) in a video-game (Minecraft if you want to know) that works even if the window is in the back. I disabled the game auto-pause upon losing window focus ...
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Bash: How can I check if a website has finished loading?
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I am trying to automate a task in my Firefox browser with xdotool.
First, I open a new tab in my browser with:
firefox -new-tab "www.domain.tld"
Then (after the page www.domain.tld ...
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Get event when window has been closed
I try to automate some repetitive tasks with xdotool. In one task I want to automatically save a website to a file. While printing on Firefox there is a progress bar which looks like this:
I want to ...
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How can I forward global hotkeys to a program that only listens when the window is in focus?
Let's say there is a program (like OBS, Chrome, or Discord) that accepts hotkeys (to open, save, print, etc) how can I forward a global hotkey like those configured in i3 to a program that only local ...
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close all except the selected window
I want to close all instance of nemo file browser except the selected window.
I have to following script to do that.
#!/bin/bash
not_to_close=$(xdotool selectwindow)
class_name=$(xprop WM_CLASS | cut ...
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Unable to send keypress to Xvfb display using XTestFakeKeyEvent in C
Using this short snipped of code I am able to capture events from the keyboard (/dev/input/event1) and print them properly. However, sending them to the Xvfb display using XTestFakeKeyEvent does not ...
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How can I search, highlight and click with xdotool in Chrome?
I need to click a string of text hundreds of times, and the text moves around. Let's say that the string is FOO.
This is what I have:
xdotool key ctrl+f
xdotool key f
xdotool key o
xdotool key o
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ctrl scroll to zoom terminal emulator using tmux
I am using the following tmux keybindings to zoom using the mouse wheels.
# Ctrl Scroll to Zoom
bind-key -T root C-WheelUpPane {
run-shell "xdotool key Ctrl+plus"
}
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How to create a keyboard shortcut to play/pause any audio/video running in the background?
So I bought this keyboard for my laptop that doesn't have media keys on it and I am very used to pressing the play/pause button on my laptop to pause any media playing in the background. With this ...
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xdotool only works in browser
I am trying to map a custom keyboard shortcut in Pop_OS! to issue some other keypresses, but I have gotten part of the way with xdotool but I still have some issues as it wont work in applications ...
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xdotool: How to test if current window is of certain class in bash script?
I want to do some specific things in a bash script if the current window belongs to the Firefox class
I am aware of:
xdotool getactivewindow
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xdotool search -class firefox
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Script/keyboard shortcut to minimize all other windows
I would like a global keyboard shortcut super+down to minimize all windows except the active one, so that I can see that window with just the desktop in the background. A nice extra would be to ...
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vim is showing strange behavior in bashscript
#!/bin/sh
action() {
screen -X stuff "xdotool key Ctrl+a $1"$(echo '\015')
}
action bar
screen
action 0
action Tab
action 1
action S
screen
action Tab
action 2
action Tab
vim
#action Tab
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xdotool issues with keyboard layout configurations having non-US defaults
I tried using the xdotool commandline on a Chrome window in Debian, typically by doing:
sleep 2 && xdotool type "2"
# Switch to the Chrome window and focus on the relevant text field
# before ...
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key binding running xdotool unexpected behaviour
I've programmed a key to run xdotool when it's pressed. But for some unknown reason xdotool is only sending keystrokes when the binded key is released, except when a non-active window is sent the ...
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Release modifier keys after using xdotool
I use the following command in a bash script file:
xdotool type --clearmodifiers $(xclip -o -sel c)
I invoke it with a shortcut such as CTRL+SHIFT+e
The action works as expected. However, after it ...
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Parsing "shell friendly" output
I would like to get output from
xdotool getactivewindow getwindowgeometry --shell
to local variables in bash.
Thought I might could do something like:
declare -A wp=( $(xdotool getactivewindow ...
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xdotool send keystroke even when windows does not have focus
I've written the attached script in order to keep my external monitor alive while I'm not typing on it. I'm using fvwm, and have multiple named windows open. The script successfully types A every ...
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xdotool not bringing active window in front while VLC is fullscreen
VLC media player has two options to show video in fullscreen. The first is called "fullscreen mode" F11 shortcut and the second is "fullscreen" with "f" shortcut.
Both modes appear the same, but the ...
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How to create a kill switch for xdotool?
I used xdotool to automate some actions. It takes data from a spreadsheet, and "types" it into a Web site, instead of me having to manually copy and paste all of that data over, saving hundreds of ...
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xdotool and new terminal windows
I recently discovered the amazing xdotool command and was going to make a bash-script to open four windows, resize, and reposition them for work.
Before, I could use the command xdotool key ctrl+...
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Xclip command works in shell but not in keyboard shortcut
I have to paste my email often during the day, and typing it is time consuming. That is why I am searching for a way to do this with a button press.
The following command works to place my mail on my ...
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How to automate a series of keystrokes involving two GUI applications
I have two windowed applications that I need to send a series of keystrokes to. I need to Alt-Tab back and forth between the apps, and I'd like to be able to reduce the number of keystrokes from six ...
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