How to initiate/trigger a key stroke in Linux

sr71919 · 02-12-2010, 06:00 AM

Hi all,
How to initiate/trigger a key stroke in Linux, as if the user has pressed those keys??

Please help

neonsignal · 02-12-2010, 06:41 AM

You can use xmacro to generate both keyboard and mouse events (assuming you are running X). These can be replayed from recorded events, or generated from commands.

sr71919 · 02-12-2010, 07:47 AM

Hi neonsignal,
I downloaded the xmacro.xxx.tar.gz file from sourceforge, but how to install/make it work???
How do i install xmacro ??

jkzfixme · 02-12-2010, 08:02 AM

depends on which distro you are running here are the instructions for ubuntu here are rpm's for opensuse and fedora , please let me know which distro and I can be more specific. Would also help if you updated in your profile so as anyone can look and make a general assumption.

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JKZfixme

Valery Reznic · 02-13-2010, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neonsignal

You can use xmacro to generate both keyboard and mouse events (assuming you are running X). These can be replayed from recorded events, or generated from commands.

Another option is kbde (kttp://kbde.sf.net) - keyboard emulator.

It's work for both X and console applications, but don't support mouse events