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Jeggy
Asked: 2012-08-24 12:00:11 +0800 CST

How can I make my mouse auto-click every 5 seconds?

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I want to click on something for hours. How can I make a script or use an application so the mouse will auto-click every 5 seconds or less?

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  1. Best Answer

    Edit: xdotool click --delay 5000 --repeat 200 1

    For 200 clicks with mouse

    Open terminal, install xdotool

    sudo apt-get install xdotool

    Also, open the window you want to click side by side with terminal. Select terminal (as active window) and move the mouse over the point where you want to click. In terminal type (try not to move the mouse)

    xdotool getmouselocation

    You will need the x:XXX and y:YYY (bottom). You can move the mouse from here, but let windows stay where they are. Type

    gedit script

    Paste the following on gedit (change the XXX and YYY for the numbers you got before)

    #!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]; do
  xdotool mousemove XXX YYY click 1 &
  sleep 5
done

    Save and close it. Then

    chmod +x script

    To execute it,

    ./script

    To get less, simply change the 5 after sleep to less.

    Source: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/xdotool.1.html and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=925217

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  2. I went to this page and downloaded the xautoclick_0.20-1~ppa1_amd64.deb (14.3 KiB) and it works great :D

    enter image description here

    Thanks to Kat Amsterdam for finding xautoclick

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  3. With xdotool installed: (apt-get install xdotool (As root or with sudo))

    This will click in the current mouse position every 5 seconds for 100000 times (That is somewhere between 5 and 6 days...)

    xdotool click --delay 5000 --repeat 100000 1 # (assuming the mouse is left where it needs to click).

    To click in a specific place: (In a command-line friendly version, for a script you probably want better formatting)

    while sleep 5; do xdotool mousemove XXX YYY click 1; done

    (--repeat can be used on the click here as well, but that won't repeat the move...)

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  4. In Lucid 10.04 LTS

    1. Open Ubuntu Software Center
    2. In the search box, type in autoclick

    3. Download xautoclick

      For Precise 12.04LTS the package has been removed from the Ubuntu Repositories and is only available via GetDeb.

      xautoclick instructions for install in precise

      or via Christoph Korn's PPA (who is a member of GetDeb):

      sudo apt-add-repository ppa:c-korn/ppa

    4. Download xautoclick via the software center (or if you are handy with the terminal)

      sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt install xautoclick

    5. Read the instructions on xautoclick man xautoclick
    6. Under Programs, Accesories choose xautoclick
    7. Change the Interval to 5000 (the value is milliseconds)
    8. Click Start
    9. Move the mouse over what you would like to click

    10. Enjoy!

      xautoclick

    To enable the GetDeb repositories:

    wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
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  5. For even more automation you can use sikuli.

    Sikuli has integrated tool that allows you to very simply write any form of interaction (mouse clicking or keyboard) by visual processing where is what on screen.

    You simply select where you want your click to occur by visually selecting screen part and off it goes. Automation logic is written in python, but even if you don't have any clue about python you can easily figure it out, because tool provides you with everything right away!

    You can simply install it with sudo apt-get install sikuli-ide.

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