I am new to using crontab, and I've been trying to get a simple cron job. I want press F5 every 1 minute to refresh Mozzila Firefox. I am using xdotool for press F5. I have script /usr/local/bin/re...

I've been using xdotool type in the past only to type a shrugface on shortcut using xdotool type '¯\_(ツ)_/¯'. That works, but always takes quite a long time and causes the entire desktop to freeze ...

I am trying to automate testing forms that selenium would take too long (javascript heavy modern forms), and I want to use xdotool and get window IDs. I see you can call xdotool selectwindow and cl...

I'm writing a bash script to control a browser remotely. So far I have vertical scrolling implemented using xdotool click 4 //up xdotool click 5 //down How can I implement horizontal scrolling ...

I am sorry to reporting this well known error message again. Nothing works for me. I am running on MacOS Catalina, if it is important. I installed xdotool with brew on my Mac and try to run xdotool...

How can I command a window to go to end of page with xdotool? "key End" seems to send and End keystroke, but nothing happens: xdotool selectwindow key End "click 5" scrolls down, but how to know ...

I know that I can get the current location of the mouse cursor by executing "xdotool getmouselocation". I would like to detect the current mouse cursor type such as pointer, beam, or hand cursor f...

Problem I am trying to do: xdotool type 'date;' but instead of the expected date; I get: dateq I have a greek keyboard, but when I issue the command the language is set to US. A note: when greek...

I like VIM a lot and I wanted to use it's keybindings everywhere. There are many IDE plugins that can emulate this but I wanted more, maybe VIM keybindings in Minecraft? :D or VIM keybindings every...

I'd like to display a popover right above where the user is typing, in any Linux app (GTK, Qt, Electron, etc.), running on X. I figured out creating the popover, now I'm trying to figure out how t...

I'm trying to do the equivalent of xdotool search "Chromium" windowactivate --sync key --clearmodifiers ctrl+r i.e. I would like to switch to Chromium and reload the current page. However, with...

I want to use xdotool via SSH but get the following error: Error: Can't open display: (default) I found this solution: export DISPLAY='0:0' Still get nearly the same error :(. I also tried: ...

Does anybody know of an automated xdotool script generator? Ideally, I would like to record a series of actions on my desktop and have it automatically made into an xdotool script for me inst...