vids VS xdotool

Compare vids vs xdotool and see what are their differences.

vids

🔍 🔘 ⏯️ 🔁 - search for videos to play from youtube.com and other platforms... (by MyOS-ArchLinux)

xdotool

fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more (by jordansissel)
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vids xdotool
1 38
12 2,971
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0.0 4.1
over 2 years ago about 1 month ago
Shell C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

vids

Posts with mentions or reviews of vids. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-17.

xdotool

Posts with mentions or reviews of xdotool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vids and xdotool you can also consider the following projects:

ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)

AutoKey - AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.

wtype - xdotool type for wayland

archweb - Arch Linux website code

keepassxc - KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

i3-vim-focus - Vim plugin for seamless navigation between i3 and vim

us.zoom.Zoom

key-mapper - 🎮 An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons. [Moved to: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper]

i3-dispatch - Allows i3 to move focus differently depending on the focused window

comfortable-swipe - Comfortable 3-finger and 4-finger swipe gesture using Xdotool in native C++

auto-tab-discard - Use native tab discarding method to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs

Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.