Hello, I have a confused idea about a potentially useless but funny article.
evemu is a set of command line tools (in the fedora repo) useful "to create a virtual input device and replay an event sequence". As opposed to the similar command xdotool, a "command-line X11 automation tool", it works also on Wayland.
evemu (and xdotool) could be used to automate keystrokes. Maybe it is a debugging tool (it can simulate also a mouse), but with a little imagination it can be used to achieve useful as well as pointless usages, i.e. automating some tasks simulating keystrokes, or hitting casual keys on the keyboard in order to create jokes.
I'm still a bit confused.
Ciao, A.
On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 10:48:18AM +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
Hello, I have a confused idea about a potentially useless but funny article.
evemu is a set of command line tools (in the fedora repo) useful "to create a virtual input device and replay an event sequence". As opposed to the similar command xdotool, a "command-line X11 automation tool", it works also on Wayland.
evemu (and xdotool) could be used to automate keystrokes. Maybe it is a debugging tool (it can simulate also a mouse), but with a little imagination it can be used to achieve useful as well as pointless usages, i.e. automating some tasks simulating keystrokes, or hitting casual keys on the keyboard in order to create jokes.
I'm still a bit confused.
Hi Alessio,
This is a *great* idea for an article. The editors approved you to go ahead with a draft. I would recommend something like this:
* Mention why xdotool doesn't work as well on modern systems due to Wayland
* Mention any other key features that are important
* Show an example how to interact with a simple app, maybe something like gnome-screenshot, on Fedora Workstation
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:38 PM Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com wrote:
This is a *great* idea for an article. The editors approved you to go ahead with a draft. I would recommend something like this:
Hello. I wrote a draft: you can find it between Pitches on the magazine site. As usual sorry for my English.
What do you think? Could it be a starting point?
Thanks, A.
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