xdo
Small X utility to perform elementary actions on windows (by baskerville)
core
Set of window manipulation tools (by wmutils)
| xdo | core | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | |
| 294 | 701 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 9 months ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
xdo
Posts with mentions or reviews of xdo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.
- Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
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How to limit a single app run?
An example with xdo:
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Open app in the background
I might have understood your question wrong, if you want to close the GUI window after staring the app you'd want to take a look at xdo. I'd still give it a little bit of time after starting it to be ready and then use something like:
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Keybind to center floating window?
xdo (by baskerville, bspwm's creator);
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Update regarding Steam + DWM + focusonnetactive
The focusonnetactive patch replaces dwm's default behavior by removing the urgency bit to allow for focusing on the client sending the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message instead. This is the preferred behavior if you use tools like xdo to perform actions on windows, for example:
core
Posts with mentions or reviews of core.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.
- [wmutils] Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
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Border color for floating windows
You will need the chwb program from wmutils/core to use these scripts.
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Keybind to center floating window?
wtp from wmutils/core;
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xdo and core you can also consider the following projects:
prospect-mail - Prospect is an Outlook mail desktop client powered by Electron
bar - A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb
autopy - A simple, cross-platform GUI automation module for Python and Rust.
nsxiv - Read-only mirror of Neo Simple X Image Viewer
TPMouse - A virtual trackball for Windows, via vim-like homerow controls.
tewi-font - small bitmap font
whkd - A simple hotkey daemon for Windows
bed - bash only text editor
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
autopilot-rs - A simple, cross-platform GUI automation module for Rust.
Flow.Launcher - :mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins
NaturalEdgePan - A more natural way of edge-panning in RTS/MOBAs