debian man page for xte

XTE(1)							      General Commands Manual							    XTE(1)

NAME
       xte - Generates fake input using the XTest extension

SYNOPSIS
       xte [options] commands...

DESCRIPTION
       xte is a program that generates fake input using the XTest extension, more reliable than xse.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included below.

       -x display
	      Send commands to remote X server. Note that some commands may not work correctly unless the display is on the console, e.g. the dis-
	      play is currently controlled by the keyboard and mouse and not in the background. This seems to be a limitation of the XTest  exten-
	      sion.

       --help, -h
	      Show summary of options.

COMMANDS
       key k  Press and release key k

       keydown	k
	      Press key k down

       keyup k
	      Release key k

       str string
	      Do a bunch of key X events for each char in string

       mouseclick i
	      Click mouse button i

       mousemove x y
	      Move mouse to screen position x, y

       mousermove x y
	      Move mouse relative from current location by x, y

       mousedown i
	      Press mouse button i down

       mouseup i
	      Release mouse button i

       sleep x
	      Sleep x seconds

       usleep x
	      Usleep x microseconds

SOME USEFUL KEYS
       This keys are case sensitive.

       Home
       Left
       Up
       Right
       Down
       Page_Up
       Page_Down
       End
       Return
       BackSpace
       Tab
       Escape
       Delete
       Shift_L
       Shift_R
       Control_L
       Control_R
       Meta_L
       Meta_R
       Alt_L
       Alt_R
       Multi_key

SEE ALSO
       pat2ppm(1), patextract(1), png2pat(1), rgb2pat(1), visgrep(1).

AUTHOR
       xte was written by Steve Slaven <bpk@hoopajoo.net>.

LIMITATIONS
       The  str  command  doesn't  support Unicode characters with more than two bytes. Further, character composing sequences to generate special
       charactes are limited to Multi_key plus two characters. The set of supported characters depends on the current keyboard layout.

								 October 18, 2003							    XTE(1)