GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute user actions under the
X11 environment. It can be used for testing and demonstrating X11 applications.
Within X11 each user input (mouse click or key press) is an
X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting wit ...
event. Xnee records these events into a file. Later Xnee is used to play the events back from the file and into an X Window System just as though the user were operating the system.
Xnee can also be used to play or ''distribute'' user input events to two or more machines in parallel.
As the target X Window application sees what appears to be physical user input it has resulted in Xnee being dubbed “''Xnee is Not an Event Emulator''.”
As Xnee is
free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
, it can be modified to handle special tasks. For example, inserting time stamps as part of the playback.
See also
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AutoHotkey
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AutoIt
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Automator (for Macintosh)
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Automise
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Bookmarklet
External links
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X11::GUITest::record- Perl implementation of the X11 record extension
X11::GUITest- X11 Recording / Playbook using Perl script
References
Automation software
Xnee
GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute user actions under the X11 environment. It can be used for testing and demonstrating X11 applications.
Within X11 each user input (mouse click or key press) is an X Window Syste ...
X Window System
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