Posted by: suso_banderas
on December 21, 2007 12:41 PM
I work at a large enterprise and helped setup a four 37 inch flat panel displays for systems monitoring and environment information. I decided to use wmctrl to switch desktops back and forth so it was like a slideshow. Its a great way to use multiple desktops as "frames". Unfortunately, wmctrl doesn't work with Beryl.
Another thing you can use for automation is the perl module X11::GUITest. You can control the mouse and stuff. I used it once to automate making a large mosaic map from several Mapquest and Google satellite images. But I can also use it to do stuff like automatically scroll down a web page after I switch to a desktop. So if you need to control the mouse and keyboard, X11::GUITest is something to look into.
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Posted by: suso_banderas on December 21, 2007 12:41 PMAnother thing you can use for automation is the perl module X11::GUITest. You can control the mouse and stuff. I used it once to automate making a large mosaic map from several Mapquest and Google satellite images. But I can also use it to do stuff like automatically scroll down a web page after I switch to a desktop. So if you need to control the mouse and keyboard, X11::GUITest is something to look into.
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