Xte Emulate Key Press & Mouse Clicks - Xautomation - Linux Mint 8

[detroitplaya4sho]

very, very useful info. opens up a new world. thanks man.

[unknown9356]

is there a way to cycle through a long set of strings in a xte command? I'm looking to do something along the lines of: xte 'mouseclick 1' 'key Return' 'sleep 1' 'str [a..z]'

[cdooginz]

I just keep getting an "X Error of failed request: " error.

[cdooginz]

This is killing me. I am trying to write a script for using "feh" with compiz fusions "scale" effect, and although I have the first part working perfectly, I can not get xautomate to execute the "Super+A" I need to for scale.

Here is the script so far:

#!/bin/sh

clear

feh -x -w -g 700X500 *.*

xte 'keydown Multi_key' 'key A' 'keyup Multi_key'

Suggestions?

[HerrKnitler]

Hmm... I've scripted my custom panel buttons with the super key. The command I used for show desktop is: xte 'keydown Super_L' 'key d' 'keyup Super_L'

But whatever, either way works.

I love xte btw. I can finally have expo, stacking and other handy shortcuts on my panel without downloading stupid gnome panel applets.

[FloobenShnooben]

Nice video, but the Multi_key function is not working for me. For testing purposes, I am trying to use this method to enable the "Show Mouse" plugin for Compiz. Here is what my code looks like:

#!/bin/bash

xte 'keydown Multi_key' 'key K' 'keyup Multi_key'

Any suggestions?

[gotbletu]

@FloobenShnooben think in lucid they disable the superkey to send events, easiest way is to use a different hot key like Alt + k, or something for the show mouse

[FloobenShnooben]

@gotbletu Thanks, defiantly helped. You are for sure one of the better youtubers out there. Thanks for the help

[PCAddictsLive]

ooh, this might come in handy. Thanks man.

[sw2de3fr4gt]

Isn't this similar to Compiz's d-bus plugin?

[chenxubin]

the Meta key is the win key, not the multi one

[gotbletu]

@chenxubin yea u would think that but not in this case. Super key = Multi key