On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:12:42 -0400 Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:59:41 +0100 > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <dr.kl...@gmx.at> wrote: > > > Anno domini 2020 Tue, 17 Mar 10:27:11 +0100 > > Didier Kryn scripsit: > > > > There's now a fashion of doing all innovations in a > > > complicated way. It seems developpers have become unable to think > > > simple. This is terribly disapointing. > > > > > > Didier > > > > Oh my, that pestilence still has not died? I rember ages ago I was > > tempted to use it as an "easy" way to inject mouse+keyboard events > > from userspace program into X11. Turned out, it was an > > overcomplicated way to solve a problem that "xdotool" has solved > > already. > > Thanks for telling me about xdotool. What a cool program! > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > March 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? > http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng oh yeah, xdotool is great. I have used it together in a script, in combination with dmenu and pass to allow me to lookup a password in my password store and auto-type it anywhere at the press of a macro. huge timesaver and very reliable. https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ -- _________________________________________ / Symptom: Feet cold and wet, glass \ | empty. Fault: Glass being held at | | incorrect angle. Action Required: Turn | | glass other way up so that open end | | points | | | | toward ceiling. | | | | Symptom: Feet warm and wet. Fault: | | Improper bladder control. Action | | Required: Go stand next to nearest dog. | | After a while complain | | | | to the owner about its lack of house | | training and | | | | demand a beer as compensation. | | | \ -- Bar Troubleshooting / ----------------------------------------- \ \ /\ /\ //\\_//\\ ____ \_ _/ / / / * * \ /^^^] \_\O/_/ [ ] / \_ [ / \ \_ / / [ [ / \/ _/ _[ [ \ /_/ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
