[SOLVED] GUI automation macros

[tkzv]

Is there a tool that can repeatedly send a sequence of keypresses to a window? Preferably, Qt or KDE rather than Gnome. Something like "Menu, Down, Down, Enter, Left, Shift-Ins, Enter, Down". The suggestions I found at Stackoverflow are all absent in modern Gentoo.

Or maybe someone can tell how to mass rename files in QBittorrent?

Solution: x11-misc/xdotool. Drawbacks: only works for QBittorrent when its window is active; Shift with cursor keys does not select text in Qt editboxes; default delay 12 ms is not enough. I ended up using "key BackSpace" to delete text and running this line in console:

[Hu]

You want a tool to do something in X? Would xdotool suffice?

Though in my opinion, you would be better off not trying to automate a GUI like this, as you could get hilariously wrong results if any key sequence is lost/misunderstood by the target, since your macro generation tool cannot see whether it is still getting the desired results. I suggest letting QBittorrent name the files as it likes, and then performing a bulk rename later. mmv is a common solution for this, but you can also do it with a simple bash script. If you provide some sample input/output pairs, someone here will probably take it as a challenge to find a solution for you.

[tkzv]