From: Kero <kero@...>
Date: 2005-07-30T19:51:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Simulating Mouse Dragging

>> > Is it possible to simulate a mouse drag event in a browser
>> > (or any program in general) with Ruby? Something like:
>>
>> Could recording + analyzing mouse data help? Then you can
>> simulate it and let X11 consume it. `gpm -R` may help.
>
> "Recording" the mouse data by reading /dev/gpmdata actually
> works. Good start. Generating such a data stream is possible.
> But what do we have to do to let X11 "consume" that stream?
> "cat test > /dev/gpmdata" doesn't work...

disclaimer: I have never tried anything like this myself.

In what sense does it not work?
(assuming you made X11 read /dev/gpmdata one way or the other).
I would guess that `cat test` is "too fast".

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