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05-24-2020, 11:20 PM
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Registered: May 2009
Location: center of singularity
Distribution: Xubuntu, Ubuntu, Slackware, Amazon Linux, OpenBSD, LFS (on Sparc_32 and i386)
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inputting keyboard actions a mouse movements from software to an X server
is there a way to programmaticly provide input to X (as opposed to a specific window) controlling the mouse and keyboard to fake the input other than running Xvnc an making my software pretend to be a VNC client? i want to do this on an already running instance of X server.
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05-25-2020, 04:37 PM
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Would xdotool work?
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05-25-2020, 04:59 PM
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xdotool sure looks like it would work, according to the man page.
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