I've been working furiously on xdo the past few days. Good times :)

The result so far is as follows:

• xdo is now a library, so you can simply call xdo_click(...) and it will handle all the hard stuff for you for the case that you want to use this in your own code.
• xdotool is the commandline interface to the xdo api.
• navmacro (bad name) is a very small gtk launcher. Basically it's an input box that runs the contents when you hit enter

I include a sample script 'ffsp' which is short for 'firefox searchbar paste'. It works on my system, but obviously on other systems you'll need to tweak it. The basics are there.

So right now, I can do this:

1. Select a piece of text in an xterm
2. Activate navmacro and type 'ffsp' and hit enter
3. Enjoy the fact that firefox has been told to search for the contents of my clipboard

'ffsp' is located in my $HOME/bin/ so I execute it like any other shell script or program.

Interested in the code? Download navmacro-20070620.tar.gz.

Note: navmacro works on my ubuntu and freebsd systems just fine. However, xdotool crashes at the end when I do free(xdo->charcodes) only on my Ubuntu system. Uncertain why, I'm way too tired to debug.

I finally took some time after work today to write up a good description of the keyboard screen navigation system I demoed at Hack Day. With the project page is a screencast demo. Hopefully you find it useful.

Go to the keynav project page