Is there a way to make xdotool or xte or any other alternative to work in Fedora 26? I'm trying to emulate keypresses (using xbindkeys), e.g. pressing Alt+B would emulate pressing Ctrl+Shift+B. But apparently neither xdotool nor xte work in Wayland (for security reasons [?]) Is there a workaround? Otherwise how do I rebind keys to other keys?

I have a numpad connected via USB and my goal is to be able to remap keys on that numpad so they can run custom commands or be mapped to other key combinations. I have this in my .xbindkeysrc file: ~ $ cat .xbindkeysrc "xte 'keydown Super_L' 'key Left' 'keyup Super_L'" m:0x10 + c:79 + Release Mod2 + KP_Home This remaps the NUM 7 key (which normally prints 7) to Super_L + Left Arrow. That's great and it works, BUT FOR ALL KEYBOARDS, while my goal is to make it work only for the numpad. Been searching how to do it, but the closest I got was to use xinput set-button-map. Unfortunately, this seems to only work for devices like mouses. I like tried fetching what the button map is for the numpad with xinput get-button-map [device id] but it just prints numbers from 1 to 7 and I definitely have more buttons on my keypad, so it doesn't necessarily make sense. Any advice?

I tried with multiple commands, from xte 'key a' to xte 'keydown Control_L" "key Tab" "keyup Control_L" for alt-tabbing, or xte 'mousemove 100 100' and nothing works; I just get a blank new line in bash.

When I do such as this in .xbindkeysrc "xte 'keydown Control_L' 'key W' 'keyup Control_L'" Shift + b:9 it performs the action of ctrl+shift+w instead of just the ctrl+w I expected. Any idea how to fix this? Adding + Release to the second line doesn't help.

I have been making scripts to open and close a specific website with a cronjob on the raspberry Pi. The opening script works perfectly. It is as follows: #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=:0 && epiphany-browser http://mywebsite sleep 30 xte "key F11" -x:0 xte "key F5" -x:0 But the one to close the browser doesn't work at all, and I can't figure out why. Is there something wrong with the script? I made it by looking at this SuperUser question . #!/bin/bash WID = xdotool search "epiphany-browser" | head-1 xdotool windowactivate --sync $WID xdotool key --clearmodifiers ctrl+q Note: Couldn't get this code to work but the "killall" command works just fine.

I want to map various mouse actions to key presses using xbindkeys. All my attempts to do this in my .xbindkeysrc file have failed. Attempts have been made using xte and xdotool. Below is a summary of what has been tried - although I'd like to map several mouse actions so far I've just been trying to initiate a right-button mouse click. The following xdotool and xte commands work perfectly when called from a terminal, from the graphical pop-up Run Command text-box, and from within a script called from the terminal and the Run Command text-box. It is only when called using keys set in the .xbindkeysrc file that they fail. Entries from .xbindkeysrc: "xdotool click 3" control + 8 "xte 'mouseclick 3'" control + 7 # -x :0 sets the display. "xte -x :0 'mouseclick 3'" control + 6 # Starting a text editor window works fine. "leafpad" control + 1 I also had no luck placing the same commands (one at a time) in a script and calling that in .xbindkeysrc. I added a command at the bottom of the script to create a file - the file gets created every time so I know that the script is being run successfully. "/full/path/to/mouse/button/script" control + 5 Please note that there have been no silly mistakes like not restarting xbindkeys after making alterations, I've been checking that it is running and added a command to .xbindkeysrc which launches a text editor window so that I can be sure xbindkeys is running properly. System Info. OS: GNU/Linux x86_64 Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Cinnamon 64-bit 2.2.16 [Based On: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS, Trusty Tahr]

I would like to detect if a key is being pressed when running a script. I have the following script: #!/bin/bash sleep 0.5 xte 'str sometext' I run this script using a shortcut to paste "sometext" where I'm at in kde. I used a sleep 0.5 here because the script itself is run with a shortcut that uses ctrl and alt. If the sleep 0.5 is omitted, the result is that ctrl+s, ctrl+o, etc... is sent. I think the solution would be to add some bussy wait at the beginning that would block untill no keys are being pressed. How can I get this to work in the script?

I'm trying to fake xinput events with xte: xte "str $(echo '')" But, I get: WQBC@g;qil'"` 4WQBC@g;qil