macOS
Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install xdotoollocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install xdotoolMacPorts ports tree · x11/xdotool/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
brew
Installer xdotool avec Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de xdotool pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
Linux
Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add xdotoolAlpine Linux edge package indexes · xdotool · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptvérifié · 92%
sudo apt install xdotoolDebian stable package indexes · xdotool · Source: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%
sudo dnf install xdotoolFedora Rawhide package metadata · xdotool · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#xdotoolnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/xd/xdotool/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanvérifié · 92%
sudo pacman -S xdotoolArch Linux sync databases · xdotool · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install xdotoolopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · xdotool · Source: download.opensuse.org
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
Fake keyboard/mouse input and window management for X
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- xdotool
historique
Historique du projet et usages
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.
Historique du projet
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.
Historique d'adoption
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.
Modes d'utilisation
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.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
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.
Chronologie
- 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.
Sources
posture de sécurité
Niveau de risque : vert
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Classificateur de risque
risque vert · confiance faible · appliance
Pourquoi
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signaux
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Comportement d'installation
- Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
- Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
- S’installe avec 5 dépendances d’exécution.
- Les métadonnées de compilation listent 1 dépendances de compilation.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
xdotool | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-07-10
version du gestionnaire4.20260303.1
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontà jour
dernière version détectéev4.20260303.1
https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | brew:xdotool |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.20260303.1 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/xdotool |
| Page d'accueil | https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/ |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool |
| Docs amont | https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool#readme |
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Archive source | https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/archive/refs/tags/v4.20260303.1.tar.gz |
| Dépendances | libx11, libxi, libxinerama, libxkbcommon, libxtst |
| Dépendances de compilation | pkgconf |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
| Précautions | 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 |
faits du registre
Détails de la base source
| 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 |
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correspondances dans les bases sources
Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
Nix95%
xdotool
nix profile install nixpkgs#xdotool- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- 2 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- 2 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- 2 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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 Dépendances
- 2 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Xdotool
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Sources utilisées
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment