Sending Programmatic Mouse Events to X

Question

I am somewhat new to X development on Linux. I'm wondering what are best practices (or links to resources) for programmatically sending cursor events. Moving the cursor to a normalized (X,Y), creating right/left mouse clicks, etc. Ideally this would be something in C/C++.

I have played around with the Qt QCursor but I'd like to know the raw way to accomplish this.

Answer 1

Also check out xdotool

http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/

Answer 2

You need to be learning Xlib if you want the "raw" way to accomplish it.

If you want even MORE raw, you'll want to study the X protocol.

What you're asking about is pretty darn specialized knowledge. You should head over to the X.org mailing lists or X related newsgroups.

Answer 3

I think you can use XSendEvent. There's some sample code here which uses XQueryPointer to populate most of the event fields.

If you just want to move the pointer, use XWarpPointer.