Questions tagged [xdotool]
a command line tool that can simulate X11 keyboard input and mouse activity and manipulate windows
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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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xdotool sending keydown to inactive window
I am trying to get my pc to hold down a key in a specific window. I have tried using the following xdotool command:
xdotool keydown --window 0x36000fc 'q'
But this command seems to only work in a ...
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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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how to reliably automate tasks using xdotools when key strokes are dropped?
I'm trying to use xdotools to automate feeding commands to an application. However, I have found that there is a noticable non-deterministic lag in the user interface such that even with unreasonably ...
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How to use entr and xdotool to refresh firefox on *.css file updates?
I am trying to get the livereload work
find . -name '*.css' -print | entr xdotool search 'firefox' key Control_L+R
When i edit the css files I only get same output without firefox reloading.
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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 can I check that Cinnamon is in Tile mode in command line?
There is a window selection mode, or Tile mode in Cinnamon, enabled with ctrl+alt+down_arrow by default.
In my bash script I need to check that this mode is currently active (user pressed shortcut ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
