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tkzv Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 1:29 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] GUI automation macros |
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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:
Code: | sleep 1s; for n in {1..98}; do xdotool key --delay 100 Menu Down Down Down Enter End BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace Shift+Insert Enter Down; done |
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Hu Administrator
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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tkzv Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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Hu wrote: | You want a tool to do something in X? Would xdotool suffice? ![Smile :)](images/smiles/icon_smile.gif) |
Thanks.
Hu wrote: | 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. |
If I map a sequence to a single keypress, it will go wrong only once at worst. I do have some experience with that sort of things
Hu wrote: | I suggest letting QBittorrent name the files as it likes, and then performing a bulk rename later. |
I want to be able to use the files with names convenient to me, but continue seeding them as long as possible. QBittorrent allows that.
Hu wrote: | 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. |
In this case simple rename from sys-apps/util-linux is enough. |
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