XAUTOMATION(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 buttons, 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)