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chikinn

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 42

xdotool command chaining: "unknown command"

I'd like to send a keypress ("u") to a terminal with a particular PID (1242).

$ xdotool search --pid 1242 key u
Defaulting to search window name, class, and classname
xdotool: Unknown command: u

It seems the key command is misunderstood as part of the preceding search command.

The two commands work fine separately (it isn't an issue of multiple search results):

$ xdotool search --pid 1242
25165858

$ xdotool key u
u

How do I chain them?

(Edit: xdotool version 3.20150503.1)

Last edited by chikinn (2015-05-25 17:10:57)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: xdotool command chaining: "unknown command"

xdotool key --window $(xdotool search --pid 27348) u

works for me.

chikinn

Member

Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 42

Re: xdotool command chaining: "unknown command"

That's a good workaround, but I wonder why the command chaining described in the manual is failing.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,804

Re: xdotool command chaining: "unknown command"

Moving to Newbie Corner

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