Simulate mouse movement in Ubuntu
- by Dave Jarvis
Problem
Am looking to automatically move the mouse cursor and simulate mouse button clicks from the command-line using an external script. Am not looking to:
Record mouse movement and playback (e.g., xnee, xmacro)
Instantly move the mouse from one location to another (e.g., xdotool, Python's warp_pointer)
Ideal Solution
What I'd like to do is the following:
Edit a simple script file (e.g., mouse-script.txt).
Add a list of coordinates, movement speeds, delays, and button clicks. For example:
(x, y, rate) = (500, 500, 50)
sleep = 5
click = left
Run the script: xsim < mouse-script.txt.
Question
How do you automate mouse movement so that it transitions from its current location to another spot on the screen, at a specific velocity? For example:
xdotool mousemove 500 500 --rate 50
The --rate 50 doesn't exist with xdotool.
I could write a script that uses xdotool to get the current mouse coordinates then move it a pixel at a time to the destination with a suitable sleep interval; what automated testing tool already does this?
Thank you.
