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- shell - Cron xdotool doesnt run - Stack Overflow
The xdotool command is automation tool for X11 which allows you simulate keyboard mouse input, but since crontab is run independently, it's required to define DISPLAY variable to specify which X Window System display server to use
- Automatic web-page refresh using xdotool - Stack Overflow
The following xdotool command works perfectly for me (switches to the first found Firefox window, refreshes current tab): xdotool search "Navigator" windowactivate key 'ctrl+r' Running Ubuntu 14 04 1 on xdotool 3 20140217 1
- linux - How to use xdotool to open a new tab, switch to it and run . . .
If separate tabs is necessary requirement, you can use xdotool to key the switch-to-the-next-tab binding or similar, and then key the commands you must run in that tab Instead of sorting out that mess yourself, you could use a script from this answer by Jacob Vlijm, which wraps a windowed approach that uses xdotool and wmctrl to 'send
- linux - How to execute a command in a bash script and then focus the . . .
My version of xdotool obviously doesn't support the --pid parameter, but I've seen it in online man pages so probably I just need to upgrade – Jörg Brenninkmeyer Commented Nov 20, 2010 at 14:11
- linux - xdotool, ctrl key and keyboard layouts - Stack Overflow
If we look at how xdotool works, when you are in the 2nd key mapping as shown by state 0x2000, it looks up Control_L to find the keycode, then looks up the keycode in the xmodmap -pke columns for the current state, and doesnt find Control_L So it takes a spare keycode 8, and temporarily changes the mapping so keycode 8 = keysym Control_L, and
- How can I use xdotool from within a python module script?
I had been using xdotool with sh and os system for a while but decided to update everything to use subprocess Doing that I encountered a few minor glitches and in googling discovered the libxdo python module suggested by Simon There was a small issue with Python3 - it uses bytestrings - but the conversion was simple and it runs more smoothly
- bash - Send xdotool keypresses clicks to multiple windows . . .
This does NOT necessarily have to be done with xdotool, if there is an alternative I would be happy to use it Preferably it would work with bash though So, if I had three windows, all of which I wanted to send the "w" key to, I would need to do something like set the active window as each in quick succession followed by sending the w key
- xdotool script to perform mouse moves and clicks - Ask Ubuntu
I'm new to xdotool and I have a bash script to do some automated clicks for me, but the clicks don't seem to be occurring I think it's because I'm not selecting the window, though I'm not very confident about that assessment Here's what I have so far:
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