Questions tagged [xdotool]
a command line tool that can simulate X11 keyboard input and mouse activity and manipulate windows
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Multiple keyboard simulations for multiple programs using xdotool
I have a program that display a set of picture randomly with xdotool: it display a picture in a folder and sometimes it press left arrow,sometimes it press right arrow with xdotool.
WHAT I WANT: Now ...
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On i3 how to simulate natural pressing on key
I use the xdotool commands into my i3 configuration to simulate key pressing and automate my key bindings.
I'm on ubuntu but i don't think that change the behaviour of i3 and xdotool.
Example, ...
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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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A shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in awesome key bindings
This is the code I currently have:
-- Silly shrug emoji.
awful.key({ modkey }, "F12",
function ()
awful.util.spawn("xdotool getactivewindow type '¯\\_(ツ)_/¯'", false)
end,
{...
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Trigger a certain key combo with another one
Can anyone suggest me on what would be the best way to trigger a certain key kombo with another one. Say, I'd like to send CTRL+= while pressing CTRL+[.
Basically I want to workaround zoom for Google ...
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Gnome-terminal's opened after first one is opened & minimised, open but don't come to focus
I am running Arch, tint2 & Openbox with all the latest updates.
I have the following snippet in Openbox which is a keyboard shortcut;
<keybind key="w-t"><action name="Execute"><...
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Eliminate xdotool delay?
I have assigned the key F2 to the command
bash -c "sleep 0.1;xdotool type --clearmodifiers $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)"
There is a delay of half a second (not because of the sleep 0.1 command that should ...
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xdotool getmouselocation and getwindowgeometry Y location inconsistency
I have been working with automating some of the user actions using xdotool and java in Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS x64 Desktop.
I am using java robot to move my mouse and xdotool (via Java Process.exec) to ...
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Use mouse click as keyboard key archlinux + xfce 4.12, no action
Based on this :
#!/bin/bash
set -x
exec &>/tmp/log
id=$(
xinput list |
awk '/Dell USB Keyboard/{print gensub(/.*id=([0-9]+).*/, "\\1", "1")}'
)
xdotool mousedown $1
while IFS= ...
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How do I assign WM_CLASS when launching an application
I am using mupdf-gl, and using xprop I don't get the value of WM_CLASS. But if I use mupdf-x11, I do get a value for WM_CLASS.
The output of xprop for mupdf-gl:
_NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 2
...
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how to focus menu window on the object (instead the mouse cursor position) with a xdotool?
I use
xdotool key Menu
with super R key to show menu. But when i press Super R - menu appears at the current mouse cursor position. Can i make it appears at the current file position
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xdotool type and stty occasionally cut off first letter of input
I defined a simple function prepend (below) that should automatically place a repeated term of a bash command in the following input prompts. For example, by typing prepend git in the terminal, all ...
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how do I make xdotool press ctrl c and ctrl v
xdotool key ctrl+v or ctrl+c does not work (I am on rpi3b+)
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Why do `xwininfo` and `xdotool` give me different window ids?
In a tab of a terminal emulator (lxterminal), I try to find out its window id by clicking in the tab and the process which "owns" the window (I am still not sure what is the word to describe the ...
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How to break a bash script initiated with xbindkeys?
I initiated a bash script by xbindkeys as
"sleep 1;bash /home/scripts/loop.sh"
KP_Add
How can I bind another key, which can break this bash script?
For example, if loop.sh is 1,000 clicks by ...
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xbindkeys does not bind xdotool key command for a key
I add the xdotool commands to .xbindkeysrc. The commands for mouse work, such as
"xdotool mousemove 200 200"
q
but I keys do not work, such as
"xdotool key x"
q
What can be the reason that the ...
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XDoTool Command to Wait For Process to End
I use the program VisiPics to delete dupicate pictures. The processing time for deletion varies dependent on the number of pictures and duplicates. I created an Xdotool command to carry out certain ...
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xdotool: command to resize current active firefox window?
I have multiple firefox windows, I'd like to use a shortcut of current window manager to resize curent active firefox's window to specific size and position.
How xdotool command to achieve this?
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How can I bring a background GUI job to the front of my desktop?
In Lubuntu 18.04, I have many background GUI jobs running in a bash shell.
Among them, I have a evince process running in background:
$ jobs | grep evince
[29] Running evince ...
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Linux Mint 19 - xdotool not minimizing the terminal windows invoked by shortcut
I am using Linux Mint 19. Default terminal is gnome-terminal
I created a custom shortcut In Keyboard -> Shortcut with the command gnome-terminal -e /home/ismail/Documents/Translate/screen_ts_short....
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Is it possible to automate clicks with xdotool to control a different GUI session from the one being currently used?
The xdotool command allows us to create scripts controlling the graphical user interface of the system very easily. I can e.g. open my Chrome browser in the following desktop by executing xdotool ...
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Can I unbind a key when a certain window has focus in the sway window manager?
Can I pass some keys for a specific window? I could not find in Sway's man pages or the issues on Github.
At the moment, I'm executing a script with bindsym XF86Forward exec sway-next (requires jq ...
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linux mint xdotool type web link
I am trying to use xdotool to type a URL and instead of:
https://www.sample.com/sales/search?facet=T&facetT=45259587&facet.T=44143327&facet.T=25866782&facet.T=260287
I get:
https;/...
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Error when automating type option via xdotool
I want to open Chromium browser and then open a couple of web pages, let's say "google.com", and "stackexchange.com". My code for the same is below.
#!/bin/bash
#website 1
chromium-browser
xdotool ...
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How to set absolute mouse cursor position in Wayland without using mouse?
The question is pretty straight forward.
What I would have used under X [xdotool] obviously does not work moving forward, and no obvious new solutions have arisen given the relative new adoption of ...
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Can't get x forwarding to work with android
I'm trying to send keystrokes from my android to my Retropie using ssh. After a lot of searching I found that I have to use ssh with the -X flag which was already a hassle as most apps don't support ...
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XBindkeys and Mouse key's giving keyboard numbers (0-9)
XINPUT
➜ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ...
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Mapping mouse events to key presses using xbindkeys
I want to map various mouse actions to key presses using xbindkeys. All my attempts to do this in my .xbindkeysrc file have failed. Attempts have been made using xte and xdotool. Below is a summary of ...
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Xdotool action without focusing
Is there a way to automatically click at a specific place in specific window without getting the window focused?
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`xdotools type` mangles carriage returns
I would like to setup a paste functionality allowing to paste copied text (like scripts and configuration files) to any kind of application, including virtual guests and remote sessions running ...
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run command on user display as root isn't working as expected
I'm trying to execute a xdotool operation (move mouse) on the user's display from a root shell but I get:
# DISPLAY=:0 mousemove_relative 1 1
No protocol specified
Error:Can't open display: (null)
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Keyboard emulation in Wayland
Is there a way to make xdotool or xte or any other alternative to work in Fedora 26?
I'm trying to emulate keypresses (using xbindkeys), e.g. pressing Alt+B would emulate pressing Ctrl+Shift+B. But ...
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Keyboard shortcut to open a new terminal if one doesn't exist on this desktop. Otherwise, focus the current one
I would like to create a keyboard shortcut that will open a new terminal window only if none exists on the current desktop. Otherwise, the currently existing one will be focused. I just upgraded from ...
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xdotool prints 8 instead of Tab
I'm currently working on a "autotype"-script for pass.
In oder to do that, I need to type the username, press 'Tab' and then type the password.
For testing I'm using the following code:
WID=$(...
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Install problem for xdotool
Since I have problems with my Internet connection I'm not able to always run command
apt-get install xdotool in Terminal, so I would like to download the xdotool package manually from website in .zip ...
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xdotool messes up keyboard input
I'm trying to create some scripts using xev and xdotool to allow me to record and re-play macros in linux. I've got the recording working with xev, and the replaying mostly works but appears to leave ...
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How to launch an application as a dock on openbox
If i do obxprop|grep dock and click on gnome-panel for example, my result is :
_OB_APP_TYPE(UTF8_STRING) = "dock"
For the rest, it's :
_OB_APP_TYPE(UTF8_STRING) = "normal"
How can i force a ...
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A tool that let's you draw rectange on screen, gives dimensions + X-Y? [closed]
a tool like:
xprop
wmctrl
xdotool
but it needs to permit me to draw a shape on the screen.
then it should tell me the dimensions + the x-y coordinates
is there such tool ?
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How to copy text from command line to clipboard without using the mouse?
I'm trying to figure out a way to copy the current text in a command line to the clipboard WITHOUT touching the mouse. In other words, I need to select the text with the keyboard only.
I found a half-...
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How to get window ID from process ID
This command will get the PID of the xterm process launched:
xterm & export APP_PID=$!
How can I get the window ID associated to that process (the xterm window ID)? I mean, the ID that xdotool ...
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How can I press the Windows key with xdotool
How can I press the start key with xdotool?
By start key, I mean the key with the Windows icon.
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Make 'read' work when not focused on terminal
I have the following script which spams a button in a program when the V button is pressed
#!/bin/bash
winid=$(xdotool search "application name here" | head -n1)
while true; do
read -rsn1 input
if [ "...
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minimizing & raising a window from a shell script
I am trying to run a script that will check internet speed on a linux machine with gui, bring the terminal window down and when the query is finished , the window will come up with the answer.
as for ...
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Bash script. Create monkey testing tool [AntergOS]
I has this error when I run bash script that run another bash scripts and recursively run itself.
In scripts I use xdotool, create counters and in each script I use $RANDOM call (even is a file that ...
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Reactivate stored pid of a window with xdotool
First, I store the pid of an active window.
active_window_pid=$(xdotool getactivewindow getwindowpid)
Second, I click on another window, which is actually function below.
mouse_click 4000 1000
...
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Why xdotool is not clicking when restoring position?
Why xdotool is not clicking when restoring position?
xdotool mousemove --sync 4000 1000 click 1 mousemove restore
If I don't restore the position, it works, example:
xdotool ...
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xdotool sleep 1 vs sleep 1, any difference?
Is there any difference between these two sleep commands:
Either:
xdotool sleep 1
Or:
sleep 1
Example:
#!/bin/bash
while :
do
xdotool mousemove --sync 1000 500
xdotool click 1
...
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X: Find out if a window is visible to the user i.e. not covered by others
I only want to execute a certain action with xdotool if the window is not visible to the user, this includes minimized windows, but also windows which are 100% covered by other windows (if no ...
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How to combine conditions with xdotool?
Is it possible to search for both the --class and --name using xdotool?
xdotool search --all --onlyvisible --class "some_val" --name "another val"
The above returns an error because the first ...
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xdotool: How to search for window by title and class with different patterns (similar to AutoHotkey)
xdotool lets you search for windows using its search subcommand. I need to locate a window, that has class 'gvim' and title containing word 'TODO'. How do I do this?
What I've tried:
You can do ...
