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Generating keyboard and mouse input without actually pressing them can be done by command ‘xautomation’.

There are 2 commands to run xautomation: xte and xdotool.

Examples:

Move the cursor to a certain position (x,y):
xte ‘mousemove x y’
or
xdotool mousemove x y

Press a button on the keyboard:
xte  ’key a’
or
xdotool key a

Type a string:
xte ‘str abcd’
or
xdotool  type abcd

Click mouse left button:
xte ‘mouseclick 1′
or
xdotool click 1

Get current cursor position:
xdotool getmouselocation
(xte has no command).

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