SendKeys" equivalent in Linux

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 02:10:07 +0200, Wolfgang Draxinger staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Aye.

You don't need to mess around at that low of a level. There's a program called "xmacroplay" that can send fake keystroke and mouse events to the is a little verbose but easily understandable.

The main problem with xmacroplay is that it sends key events to the entire X server, not an arbitrary window. Events sent to the entire X server are usually sent to the currently active window (if they're normal keys, or mouse events in the currently active window) or the window manager (if they're special key combinations or mouse events outside the currently active window) or X itself (Ctrl-Alt-F?, Ctrl-Alt-+-- , Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace).

It'd certainly be possible to use xmacroplay to send "Alt+Tab" to the window manager until the proper window was active, but that'd require a bit of communication that I don't know if X provides. So: Is it possible to query X in some way and find the breastle of the currently active window? Something with "xwininfo grep $breastLE" , maybe?

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