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xdotool mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

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Installationsbefehl Sicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install xdotool

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install xdotool

MacPorts ports tree · x11/xdotool/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add xdotool

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · xdotool · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install xdotool

Debian stable package indexes · xdotool · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install xdotool

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · xdotool · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#xdotool

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/xd/xdotool/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%

sudo pacman -S xdotool

Arch Linux sync databases · xdotool · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install xdotool

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · xdotool · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Fake keyboard/mouse input and window management for X

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

xdotool

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

xdotool is Jordan Sissel's X11 automation command: a small CLI and companion libxdo library for synthesizing keyboard and mouse input, searching for windows, and manipulating X window-manager state from scripts.

Projektgeschichte

The earliest public GitHub commit history for xdotool reaches back to 2007 and records a migration from a semicomplete Google Code Subversion repository, while the GitHub repository itself was created in 2011. Its upstream documentation has long described the same core design: use the XTEST extension and Xlib calls to fake input, locate windows, move and resize them, switch desktops, and alter window properties.

xdotool evolved from a one-command X scripting helper into a grab bag of practical desktop automation verbs. The upstream README documents not only key and mouse events but also window stacks, EWMH/NetWM-oriented window-manager interactions, and libxdo for C programs that need the same behavior without shelling out.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption followed the path of a classic Linux desktop utility: package it everywhere, make it scriptable, and let window-manager users compose it with shell, hotkey daemons, status bars, and test harnesses. The upstream project page lists common installs for Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, FreeBSD, macOS through Homebrew or MacPorts, and OpenSUSE, matching its role as a small dependency-free command that distributions can ship easily.

Its importance also became clearer during the Wayland transition. The README explicitly warns that xdotool does not work correctly for many Wayland tasks because its model depends on X11 semantics; that limitation turned xdotool into both a beloved X11 automation tool and a marker of the security and protocol differences between X11 and Wayland.

Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners use xdotool to press hotkeys, type text into focused applications, click or move the pointer, activate a window found by name or class, resize matching windows, script window focus, and glue graphical applications into shell workflows. It is common in lightweight window-manager setups, kiosk scripts, GUI smoke tests, and one-off desktop automation.

The tool is intentionally composable: upstream examples show pipelines that search for Firefox, activate it, and send Ctrl+L, or find visible terminal windows and resize them. libxdo gives packagers and C applications a lower-level route to the same XTEST and Xlib behavior.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

xdotool is one of the canonical examples of a package that matters because it exposes a desktop protocol as a Unix command. It packages the old X11 assumption that clients can inspect and influence each other into a tiny CLI, which made it disproportionately useful for automation and disproportionately hard to replace under Wayland.

For package nerds, it also illustrates the value of boring distribution: a single executable, a small C library, a manpage, and enough stable behavior that scripts written years apart still tend to work on Xorg sessions.

Zeitleiste

2007: Earliest GitHub-visible commit imports xdotool history from the semicomplete Google Code Subversion repository.
2010: Upstream examples note simpler chained commands available as of version 2.20100623.
2011: The GitHub repository is created.
2015: The semicomplete project page documents distro install routes and the XTEST/Xlib design.
2020s: The README frames Wayland incompatibility as a core boundary of xdotool's X11 model.

Related projects

libxdo is the C library shipped with xdotool for applications that need xdotool-style X11 automation.
XTEST is the X11 extension xdotool uses for synthetic keyboard and mouse input.
ydotool and dotool are related tools named by upstream for Wayland-era or uinput-based input automation.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 5 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`xdotool`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-07-10

Manager-Version4.20260303.1

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamaktuell

neueste erkannte Versionv4.20260303.1

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

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Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:xdotool
Version	4.20260303.1
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/xdotool
Homepage	https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/
Repository	https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool#readme
Lizenz	BSD-3-Clause
Quellarchiv	https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/archive/refs/tags/v4.20260303.1.tar.gz
Abhängigkeiten	libx11, libxi, libxinerama, libxkbcommon, libxtst
Build-Abhängigkeiten	pkgconf
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert
Einschränkungen	You will probably want to enable XTEST in your X11 server now by running: defaults write org.x.X11 enable_test_extensions -boolean true For the source of this useful hint: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1264210/does-mac-x11-have-the-xtest-extension

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	xdotool
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

libxdo-dev 1:3.20160805.1-5.1

library for simulating X11 keyboard/mouse input

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/

sudo apt install libxdo-dev

Section: libdevel
Architecture: amd64
Source Package: xdotool
2 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libxdo-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Debian apt95%

libxdo3 1:3.20160805.1-5.1

library for simulating (generating) X11 keyboard/mouse input events

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/

sudo apt install libxdo3

Section: libs
Architecture: amd64
Source Package: xdotool
5 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libxdo3 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Debian apt95%

xdotool 1:3.20160805.1-5.1

simulate (generate) X11 keyboard/mouse input events

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/

sudo apt install xdotool

Section: x11
Architecture: amd64
3 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: xdotool from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Nix95%

xdotool

nix profile install nixpkgs#xdotool

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/xd/xdotool/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Ubuntu apt95%

libxdo-dev 1:3.20160805.1-5build1

library for simulating X11 keyboard/mouse input

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/

sudo apt install libxdo-dev

Section: universe/libdevel
Architecture: amd64
Source Package: xdotool
2 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libxdo-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Ubuntu apt95%

libxdo3 1:3.20160805.1-5build1

library for simulating (generating) X11 keyboard/mouse input events

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/

sudo apt install libxdo3

Section: universe/libs
Architecture: amd64
Source Package: xdotool
5 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libxdo3 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Ubuntu apt95%

xdotool 1:3.20160805.1-5build1

simulate (generate) X11 keyboard/mouse input events

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/

sudo apt install xdotool

Section: universe/x11
Architecture: amd64
3 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: xdotool from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

apk95%

xdotool 4.20260303.1-r0

Simulate X11 keyboard/mouse input events

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

sudo apk add xdotool

License: BSD-3-Clause
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: xdotool
1 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: xdotool from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

xdotool-dev 4.20260303.1-r0

Simulate X11 keyboard/mouse input events (development files)

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

sudo apk add xdotool-dev

License: BSD-3-Clause
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: xdotool
1 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: xdotool-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

xdotool-doc 4.20260303.1-r0

Simulate X11 keyboard/mouse input events (documentation)

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

sudo apk add xdotool-doc

License: BSD-3-Clause
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: xdotool
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: xdotool-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

dnf95%

libxdo 3.20211022.1-10.fc44

Keyboard input simulation library

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

sudo dnf install libxdo

License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: i686
Source Package: xdotool
6 Abhängigkeiten
2 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libxdo from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

dnf95%

libxdo-devel 3.20211022.1-10.fc44

Development files for libxdo

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

sudo dnf install libxdo-devel

License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: i686
Source Package: xdotool
4 Abhängigkeiten
2 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libxdo-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

dnf95%

xdotool 3.20211022.1-10.fc44

Fake keyboard/mouse input

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

sudo dnf install xdotool

License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: xdotool
5 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: xdotool from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

pacman95%

xdotool 4.20260303.1-1

Command-line X11 automation tool

https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/

sudo pacman -S xdotool

License: BSD-3-Clause
Architecture: x86_64
5 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: xdotool from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

zypper95%

xdotool 4.20251130.1-1.3

Fake keyboard/mouse input

https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/

sudo zypper install xdotool

License: BSD-3-Clause
Category: System/X11/Utilities
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: xdotool
7 Abhängigkeiten
2 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: xdotool from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

zypper95%

xdotool-devel 4.20251130.1-1.3

Development and Library files

https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/

sudo zypper install xdotool-devel

License: BSD-3-Clause
Category: Development/Libraries/X11
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: xdotool
4 Abhängigkeiten
2 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Xdotool

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: xdotool-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

Quellspur

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Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/xdotool.yml

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xdotool mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Linux

Paketzusammenfassung

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Projektgeschichte

Adoptionsgeschichte

Wie es verwendet wird

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Zeitleiste

Related projects

Quellen

Risikostufe: grün

Risikoklassifikator

Warum

Signale

Installationsverhalten

Empfohlene Prüfung

Installierte Executables

Version und Aktualität

Paketmetadaten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Interne Paketlinks

Themen-Hubs

Verwandte Tools

Gleicher Workflow

Agent-Sicherheitsleitfäden

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Combined YAML source

Verwendete Quellen