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Simulate mouse movement in Ubuntu

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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:

  1. Edit a simple script file (e.g., mouse-script.txt).
  2. Add a list of coordinates, movement speeds, delays, and button clicks. For example:
    (x, y, rate) = (500, 500, 50)sleep = 5click = left
  3. 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.


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