Can't get any mousemove events to work

[white...@gmail.com]

I am running a Xvfb  on display :15 with version 3.20130503.1 of xdotool. I'm trying to run the following command and it fails.

 

DISPLAY=:13 xdotool search -pid 28666 --onlyvisible  xul windowmove --sync 0 0  mousemove --sync 230 65 click  1

 

I have determined that the search, windowmove, and click all work correctly but the mousemove does not work.  In addition, mousemove_relative seems to fail also.

 

I must be doing something fundamentally wrong but I don't know what it is.

[lam...@gmail.com]

If you are using xdotool from an exterm try tu run it with this parameter:
xterm -xrm 'xterm*allowSendEvents: True'  

If it solve your problem add:   xterm*allowSendEvents: True
to your /etc/X11/Xresources/x11-common

If it dont help try xdotool with windowfocus or window command.

If the above methods fails try:
wmctrl -l
xdotool windowfocus <number from wmctrl>
xdotool <command>

[Jordan Sissel]

I believe the problem is the way xdotool makes assumptions about your intent.

Because you did a search, any commands run after that search will know about the search results. So the mousemove is sending the mousemove command directly to the window - is that what you intended? Instead you can specify 'mousemove --window 0 --sync 230 65 click --window 0 1'  and it'll explicitly send the mouse move and click actions as simulated mouse movements instead of signals directly to a window.

Did I explain this well enough? Sorry if it's confusing :)

-Jordan

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