how to get MouseMove and MouseClick in bash?

Question

I\'m wondering how to get the MouseClick and MouseMove events in bash scripting for my own simple OS events.

Please tell me how to get that events.

Answer 1

You can use the command 'xte' from package 'xautomation'.

apt-get install xautomation

As an example, the following command can be noted:

xte 'mousemove 200 300'

So, the mouse pointer moves to the width 200 and height 300 of the screen. As an other example, we have:

xte 'mouseclick 3'

that click the right button of mouse (1: left click, 2: middle click, 3: right click). Moreover you can press the keys on keyboard via shell:

xte 'keydown Control_L' 'key c' 'keyup Control_L'

This example send ctrl+c to shell.