Re: command line vs gui

On 2005-12-08, Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:21:55 GMT, Robert M. Riches Jr. staggered into
> the Black Sun and said:
>
>> Besides, it's going to be a little difficult to take a GUI sequence
>> and put it in a crontab to run at 2:30am monday through friday without
>> turning the GUI into a CLI.
>
> xmacrorec, then xmacroplay? OK, that won't work unless the widgets
> you're clicking on don't move around, but it's certainly possible to do
> if you really have to. Or you could hack something up using wmctrl, but
> that's probably too close to "turning the GUI into a CLI".

I have used xmacro to great advantage. However, that's not
going to do much good if I'm not logged in and running X at
the prescribed time of day.

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Robert Riches
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