Seems like a small wrapper around PyAutoGUI - that I've used before and is great: https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/
Self Driving Desktop
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#22It would have been cool to have screenshots on the front page. It gives so much more sense as to what the thing on github actually is, because I didn't understand it (without further time) from just the github.
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#23What's different about this compared to a shell script that invokes xdotool save for being much more verbose.
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#24It's "Grammar"
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#25In 2008, we were at CeBIT showing off the then-brandnew KDE 4 desktop. (The booth was sponsored by a Linux-focused media company.) The biggest attention magnet was a script that we hacked together the evening before, that clicked through the application menu and demoed various desktop features in a loop. For a booth, it's absolutely vital to have something that moves, not just static posters and people standing around waiting.
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#26The title is a bit misleading leading to disappointment. I was expecting something like a self driving car. You just give the desktop an objective and it figures out how to get there and then gets you there.
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#27What is it? The page just says "Desktop Automation framework" and then lists a bunch of commands and switches. Perhaps 2-3 paragraphs describing what it does?
At a glance, macros. Or maybe the "System Events" portion of Applescript, for Linux. Something like that. Indeed, the page would benefit from an explanation and maybe rationale.
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#28So it's basically AutoHotKey?
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#29One of the most unknown tools (>10 years) http://sikulix.com/ It allows play mouse/keyboard event scrips BUT it allows to find components (coords) via screen OCR so you can make your scripts multi resolution/desktop independent. Also, it's Java based so you can play it multi SO.
Yeah! I've used sikuli to automate some legacy ui-driven application with an embedded scripting engine-- wanted to rig CI to run an automated test suite to test scripts that executed in the application, but there needed to be lots of pointing and clicking to get the app into a state where it was willing to execute scripts. Sikuli was handy! The embedded image recognition is cool and pretty easy to use -- detecting the buttons certainly wasn't the most fragile part of that rube goldberg test automation setup
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#30I really was hoping for a desktop computer on wheels :(