xdotool | fake keyboard/mouse input window management | Video Utils library

by jordansissel C Version: v3.20211022.1 License: Non-SPDX

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xdotool is a C library typically used in Video, Video Utils applications. xdotool has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has medium support. However xdotool has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

xdotool lets you simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows, etc. It does this using X11’s XTEST extension and other Xlib functions. Note: If you are using Wayland, please be aware this software will not work correctly. . With xdotool, you can search for windows and move, resize, hide, and modify window properties like the title. If your window manager supports it, you can use xdotool to switch desktops, move windows between desktops, and change the number of desktops. Also in this repository is libxdo, a C library for doing the same. You may view the user documentation in xdotool.pod.

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xdotool has a medium active ecosystem.

It has 2613 star(s) with 288 fork(s). There are 56 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 12 months.

There are 247 open issues and 65 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 387 days. There are 25 open pull requests and 0 closed requests.

It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.

The latest version of xdotool is v3.20211022.1

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xdotool has 0 bugs and 0 code smells.

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xdotool has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported.

xdotool code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities.

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xdotool has a Non-SPDX License.

Non-SPDX licenses can be open source with a non SPDX compliant license, or non open source licenses, and you need to review them closely before use.

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xdotool releases are available to install and integrate.

Installation instructions, examples and code snippets are available.

It has 1086 lines of code, 111 functions and 18 files.

It has medium code complexity. Code complexity directly impacts maintainability of the code.

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Community Discussions

Trending Discussions on xdotool

How can I exit while Xdotool is controlling the mouse, keyboard, and window focus?

How to run a function only if it matches the specified URL in bash script?

xdotool command works at command line, not in bash script

Start fullscreen firefox from linux service

Why does this bash command work when I run it normally in a shell but fail through Python's Popen?

alt_space_toggle doesn't work in xkb-switch

Simulate Right CTRL key using xdotool inside Virtual box

How to copy dependent executable also to the same folder where the main executable lives while deploying with CQtDeployer?

Execute python code if active window change in linux

print to gedit whit xdotool

QUESTION

How can I exit while Xdotool is controlling the mouse, keyboard, and window focus?

Asked 2022-Feb-10 at 05:00

I have a small bash script that can run for 1, 5, or 10 mins and does various things automatically via Xdotool. It's great, the only problem is that once I've started it, I can't stop it, because Xdotool takes over the mouse and window focus during that time, so if I do Cntl-C it's more than likely on the wrong window. Is there a way to ask the script to "look" for a trigger like "Esc" or "Cntl-X" and if it sees it (regardless of window focus) to quit the program?

Not sure if this matters, but I am not running this within a terminal window, either. I start it from a quicklauncher on my taskbar. If I had at least the terminal open at the time I could maybe time a "lull" and move to that spot and Cntl-X. But I don't have that option.

I am running Bash 5.0.17 on Lubuntu20.04LTS.

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ANSWER

Answered 2022-Feb-10 at 05:00

I managed to do this a simple, yet different way than I'd thought: I initially tried to make the script wait for a trigger key, but that turned out to be far more complex because it was being run not from a terminal but from a quicklaunch button.

The solution that worked was to have another small script that used

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71039643

QUESTION

How to run a function only if it matches the specified URL in bash script?

Asked 2021-Nov-26 at 02:45

I am doing a project which kinda behaves like autologin. Below is the bash script:

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Nov-26 at 02:45

In bash, if can be used to check if your URL is valid or not. Since you have not posted any code, I assume a lot of things, but it will demonstrate the idea.

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70093818

QUESTION

xdotool command works at command line, not in bash script

Asked 2021-Nov-23 at 22:13

Why does the command xdotool search --class mupdf windowactivate --sync type f]H work in the command line as expected, almost, but not at all in the following script

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Nov-23 at 22:13

Because after starting mupdf it doesn't return control to the script until you close it. You have to run it in background using & at the end:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70088189

QUESTION

Start fullscreen firefox from linux service

Asked 2021-Nov-19 at 09:53

I would like to start a fullscreen firefox instance at boot. I created two services:

Service starting firefox:

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Nov-19 at 09:53

Just use "firefox --kiosk" and it starts in full screen by itself

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70032742

QUESTION

Why does this bash command work when I run it normally in a shell but fail through Python's Popen?

Asked 2021-Sep-25 at 00:57

I want to spawn a terminal in Kali with python, then send manipulate the terminal window.

So I can spawn a new terminal and get its pid in Python:

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Sep-25 at 00:57

I think you've got a race condition. There's an interval between when the x-terminal-emulator process starts running and when it actually brings up a window and is discoverable using xdotool. Simply adding a short wait in your code makes it work for me:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69322239

QUESTION

alt_space_toggle doesn't work in xkb-switch

Asked 2021-Aug-24 at 20:53

I have set a mapping to change the keyboard layout using this command setxkbmap -layout us,pl,ru,ua -option grp:alt_space_toggle. But it works in unexpected ways. On the first Alt+Space press, the keyboard layout is changed from us to pl. On the following key presses, nothing happens. I have tried to catch a hotkey overlay using xdotool key XF86LogGrabInfo. It appears to me that no application reacts to this key press. What can cause the problem?

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Aug-24 at 20:53

This looks like a cargo-cult copy-paste bug in the Polish xkb layout.

If you remove the first line containing key from /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pl it will work as expected.

You can test my suggestion non-destructively by running the following commands as root:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68905949

QUESTION

Simulate Right CTRL key using xdotool inside Virtual box

Asked 2021-Jun-09 at 23:51

I'm running Virtualbox in my Windows 10. I have a virtual machine running Raspbian.

Inside Raspbian virtual machine, i'm using xdotool.

From Raspbian, using xdotool, can i simulate to press Right Ctrl that it is my host key in VirtualBox so i can change the size of my VirtualBox-window?.

I mean from Raspbian that it is a virtual machine from VirtualBox, can i execute "Host + A"?. As Host is right CTRL key, i tried this two things but it only execute normal ctrl key inside Raspbian.

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Jun-09 at 23:51

No, you can't do it from inside the virtualized environment. You would have to automate that action from outside Raspbian, with an app that runs natively on Windows, such as AutoHotKey. Very similar idea, but scripts are worded a bit differently.

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67840736

QUESTION

How to copy dependent executable also to the same folder where the main executable lives while deploying with CQtDeployer?

Asked 2021-Jun-04 at 17:04

I will start my question with an example. Suppose I have a qt application named 'MyApp' and there are two dependent executable 'xprintidle' and 'xdotool' . For perfect working of my application I need MyApp, xprintidle and xdotool are to be in same folder after installing.

I am using CQtDeployer to deploy my application. I am using qt installation framework also, so in CQtdeployer i am using -qif option to create my installer directly. But i am not able to copy xprintidle' and 'xdotool also in to my package.

I am doing this in Ubuntu latest.

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Jun-04 at 17:04

cqtdeployer -bin MyApp,xprintidle,xdotool

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67798126

QUESTION

Execute python code if active window change in linux

Asked 2021-Mar-22 at 06:59

I have following code which use infinite loop to check if active window has changed.This program prints the name of current window when active window changes. There must be better way to do this. how can a keep my python code always listening to active window change without infinite loop?

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Mar-22 at 06:26

If you are on X, instead of polling, it is much better to use the Wnck.Screen's active_window_changed signal, running from a Gtk loop. In a simple example:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66729754

QUESTION

print to gedit whit xdotool

Asked 2021-Feb-25 at 17:57

I want to read the content of a text file, copy it to the clipboard (if it is not empty) and then paste to the gedit window where the mouse cursor is positioned.

Here is my script:

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Feb-23 at 18:53

This worked for me :

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66335469

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Install xdotool

You may find xdotool in your distribution packaging:.
Debian and Ubuntu: apt-get install xdotool
Fedora: dnf install xdotool
FreeBSD: pkg install xdotool
OSX: brew install xdotool
OpenSUSE: zypper install xdotool

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