[BLUG] Controlling the mouse pointer from a script

[Chris Colvard]

It looks like synergy is using an X11 extension called XTest, which 
allows testing of the X Server with high level calls.  You could either 
use synergy's code that interacts with the extension or find a different 
wrapper like the perl module X11::GUITest 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/x11guitest).  There also seems to be a 
python port of this perl module buried in the SVN repository for 
enthought 
(http://code.enthought.com/ets/doc/api_docs/enthought.guitest.x11.guitest.html).

These modules seem pretty interesting that I might make use of them 
myself for automated GUI testing.

Enjoy!

-Chris

Mark Krenz wrote:
>   There is a program for X windows called wmctrl that lets you do all
> kinds of window manager operations from the command line.  Thus it is
> useful in scripts.  But it does not have functions for controlling the
> mouse.
>
>   Does anyone know of a program that can control the mouse pointer in X
> windows in a similar way?  I'm sure its possible to do because that's
> what synergy does.  But I need something that I can say something like:
>
> mousectrl -x +500
> mousectrl -leftclickdown
> mousectrl -x -500
> mousectrl -leftclickup
>
>   My motivation is for using this to automate the process of taking
> screenshots of large ares on Mapquest or Google maps.
>
>
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