Simulate mouse movement in Ubuntu

Question

Problem

Am looking to automatically move the mouse cursor and simulate mouse button clicks from the command-line using an external script. Am not lookin

Answer 1

on newer versions of Ubuntu (14.04+), you can use Autopilot, a UI testing tool for Ubuntu. It is made for creating and running user interface tests, but can also be used for basic GUI automation tasks.

to install:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-autopilot

an example script (Python3) to automate mouse movement:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from autopilot.input import Mouse

mouse = Mouse.create()
mouse.move(100, 50)
mouse.click()

You would run this just like any other Python3 script. Watch your mouse pointer move!