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Version: 1.09
Developer / owner: Steve Slaven
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The manual page of the xautomation software package.
Xautomation is a command-line program package that controls X and performs "visual scraping" to find things on the screen. The interface allows you to move the mouse, click, release / press mouse buttons, release / press keyboard keys, etc., and uses the XTest extension, so you don't have the annoying problems of xse when applications ignore the sent events. THE visgrep program identifies images within other images and provides data about coordinates, allowing programs to click buttons on the screen, and so on.
To use the programs, xautomation software package installation is required.
Parts of the program package:
- pat2ppm
- patextract
- png2pat
- rgb2pat
- visgrep
- xte
Man page output
man xautomationXAUTOMATION(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual XAUTOMATION(7)
NAME
xautomation - control X from the command line, and find things on the screen
DESCRIPTION
xautomation is a set of command lines programs to control X 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 but-
tons, etc, on the screen to click on.
xautomation consists in the following programs:
pat2ppm
Converts an image file from PAT to PPM format.
patextract
Extract a part of a PNG image file.
png2pat
Converts an image file from PNG to PAT format.
rgb2pat
Converts an image file from 24-bit RGB to PAT format
visgrep
Visual grep, greps for images in another image.
xte Generates fake input using the XTest extension.
For more information, please see the individual manpages of these programs.
SEE ALSO
pat2ppm(1), patextract(1), png2pat(1), rgb2pat(1), visgrep(1), xte(1).
AUTHOR
xautomation was written by Steve Slaven <bpk@hoopajoo.net>.
This manual page was written by Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>, for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).
August 08, 2005 XAUTOMATION(7)
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