Package: xautomation Severity: minor The package description says how xautomation is better than xse, but xse is not packaged in Debian. This is confusing for Debian users. In any case, xse seems not to be widely used, and searching for it tends to mention xautomation as superior. On the other hand, xdotool may be a better option than xautomation. So, I suggest the package description could usefully be changed from:
Control X from the command line for scripts, and do "visual scraping" to find things on the screen. The control interface allows mouse movement, clicking, button up/down, key up/down, etc, and uses the XTest extension so you don't have the annoying problems that xse has when apps ignore sent events. The visgrep program find images inside of images and reports the coordinates, allowing programs to find buttons, etc, on the screen to click on. to: Control X from the command line for scripts, and do "visual scraping" to find things on the screen. The control interface allows mouse movement, clicking, button up/down, key up/down, etc, using the XTest extension. The visgrep program find images inside of images and reports the coordinates, allowing programs to find buttons, etc, on the screen to click on. If you just want to control X, you may find xdotool easier to use. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xautomation depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-2+lenny3 PNG library - runtime ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension xautomation recommends no packages. xautomation suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
