Cool but obscure X11 tools

Re:Cool but obscure X11 tools by microcolonel on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:06AM (#20714271)

I suggest Sikuli, it does fuzzy matching on your screen contents to determine whether to continue with your dirty, dirty hacks.

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Re:Cool but obscure X11 tools by pmoriarty on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:42AM (#20715606)

For a lighter-weight alternative to Sikuli that does not require Java, check out visgrep[1] from the xautomation project.[2]

[1] - https://linux.die.net/man/1/visgrep

[2] - https://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html

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Re:Cool but obscure X11 tools by eastendguy on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:34PM (#20718145)

For a new light-weight alternative to Sikuli that does not require Java, check out the UI.Vision browser extension + xmodule:

https://ui.vision/x/desktop-automation

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Re:Cool but obscure X11 tools by eb0la on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:54AM (#20715740)

I rememberdemoing Sikuli to the boss, when it clicked where we didn't expected just because the web we were trying to automate had a link we didn't notice.

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