On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:12:42 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:59:41 +0100
> "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <dr.klepp@???> wrote:
>
> > Anno domini 2020 Tue, 17 Mar 10:27:11 +0100
> > Didier Kryn scripsit:
>
> > > There's now a fashion of doing all innovations in a
> > > complicated way. It seems developpers have become unable to think
> > > simple. This is terribly disapointing.
> > >
> > > Didier
> >
> > Oh my, that pestilence still has not died? I rember ages ago I was
> > tempted to use it as an "easy" way to inject mouse+keyboard events
> > from userspace program into X11. Turned out, it was an
> > overcomplicated way to solve a problem that "xdotool" has solved
> > already.
>
> Thanks for telling me about xdotool. What a cool program!
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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oh yeah, xdotool is great. I have used it together in a script, in
combination with dmenu and pass to allow me to lookup a password in my
password store and auto-type it anywhere at the press of a macro. huge
timesaver and very reliable.
https://www.passwordstore.org/
https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
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/ Symptom: Feet cold and wet, glass \
| empty. Fault: Glass being held at |
| incorrect angle. Action Required: Turn |
| glass other way up so that open end |
| points |
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| toward ceiling. |
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| Symptom: Feet warm and wet. Fault: |
| Improper bladder control. Action |
| Required: Go stand next to nearest dog. |
| After a while complain |
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| to the owner about its lack of house |
| training and |
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| demand a beer as compensation. |
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