xdotool

I write automated tests for a website. One of the tests needs to press Ctrl + S and type some letters to save a webpage including CSS/JS. The test should require Firefox to have window focus for those several seconds to be able to type the filename and click "Save" (currently XDoTool is used for pressing keys and clicking the mouse). Sometimes I run the tests on my computer. I don't want to occasionally type something or change the window focus while the page is being saved, so I want to prohibit changing focus for those several seconds when those mouse clicks/key presses are running. It's not

I'd like to display a popover right above where the user is typing, in any Linux app (GTK, Qt, Electron, etc.), running on X. I figured out creating the popover, now I'm trying to figure out how to get the coordinates of the input text cursor (what blinks while you type, not sure if it's called "caret"?) relative to the screen. I know I can get info on where the mouse with xdotool : xdotool getmouselocation I would need the same thing but for the text cursor, in the currently focused window. I have no idea how to achieve this. I would love if someone could point me in the right direction. So,

I am currently experimenting with xdotool to send keys to a process (I understand that it may not work for all processes that does not set _NET_WM_PID). I have trouble sending keystrokes to windows other from the focus. It does work if you are sending keystrokes to the CURRENTWINDOW . Below is the snippet that I used to test xdotool's functionality. extern "C"{ #include <xdo.h> } //extern "C" xdo_window_search #include <iostream> #include <string.h> using namespace std; int main(){ xdo_t* p_xdo = xdo_new(NULL); // Allocate memory for search query. xdo_search_t s; // Clear the allocated memory.

I like VIM a lot and I wanted to use it's keybindings everywhere. There are many IDE plugins that can emulate this but I wanted more, maybe VIM keybindings in Minecraft? :D or VIM keybindings everywhere without the need to download any plugin. I noticed that every single editor implements this keys: Home , End , Ctrl + End , Ctrl + Left , Ctrl + Backspace and so on... I used these keys as a building blocks and I came up with this config for i3wm: mode "VIM MODE NORMAL" { bindsym --release h exec "xdotool key --clearmodifiers Left" bindsym --release j exec "xdotool key --clearmodifiers Down"