NAME

       xautomation - control X from the command line, and find things on the screen

DESCRIPTION

       xautomation  is  a  set of command lines programs to control X and do "visual scraping" to
       find things on the screen. The control interface allows mouse movement,  clicking,  button
       up/down,  key  up/down,  etc,  and uses the XTest extension so you don't have the annoying
       problems that xse has when apps ignore sent events. The visgrep program find images inside
       of  images  and  reports  the  coordinates, allowing programs to find buttons, etc, on the
       screen to click on.

       xautomation consists in the following programs:

       pat2ppm
              Converts an image file from PAT to PPM format.

       patextract
              Extract a part of a PNG image file.

       png2pat
              Converts an image file from PNG to PAT format.

       rgb2pat
              Converts an image file from 24-bit RGB to PAT format

       visgrep
              Visual grep, greps for images in another image.

       xte    Generates fake input using the XTest extension.

       For more information, please see the individual manpages of these programs.

SEE ALSO

       pat2ppm(1), patextract(1), png2pat(1), rgb2pat(1), visgrep(1), xte(1).

AUTHOR

       xautomation was written by Steve Slaven <bpk@hoopajoo.net>.

       This manual page was written  by  Aurelien  Jarno  <aurel32@debian.org>,  for  the  Debian
       project (but may be used by others).

                                         August 08, 2005                           XAUTOMATION(7)