1XAUTOMATION(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual XAUTOMATION(7)
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6 xautomation - control X from the command line, and find things on the
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10 xautomation is a set of command lines programs to control X and do
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13 uses the XTest extension so you don't have the annoying problems that
14 xse has when apps ignore sent events. The visgrep program find images
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18 xautomation consists in the following programs:
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20 pat2ppm
21 Converts an image file from PAT to PPM format.
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23 patextract
24 Extract a part of a PNG image file.
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26 png2pat
27 Converts an image file from PNG to PAT format.
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29 rgb2pat
30 Converts an image file from 24-bit RGB to PAT format
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32 visgrep
33 Visual grep, greps for images in another image.
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35 xte Generates fake input using the XTest extension.
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43 pat2ppm(1), patextract(1), png2pat(1), rgb2pat(1), visgrep(1), xte(1).
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47 xautomation was written by Steve Slaven <bpk@hoopajoo.net>.
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49 This manual page was written by Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>,
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54 August 08, 2005 XAUTOMATION(7)