simone's questions

Before I resort to scripting my own, is there a tool that records screen interactions for playback?

I want to record where the mouse got clicked and on which menu, in order to automate a series of steps.

I am planning to use xdotool to play back actions - but I am open to better alternatives, so my plan is to have a script record mouse position and take a screenshot at regular intervals, and then edit the results.

kind of like this (untested yet, and screenshot file name clearly needs to change):

while [ 1 ]
do
    gnome-screenshot -pf foo.png
    xdotool getmouselocation
    sleep 2
done

Any better solutions out there?

I remapped a few keys for my comfort via Xmodmap.

Every time I attach a USB device or wake the laptop from sleep, the mappings are forgotten.

If I re-run the mappings manually, everything works ok.

Why is that, and how can I fix it?

I am using Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS on a Lenovo P50, and my map is this:

clear control
clear mod1
clear mod4
clear mod5

! comments follow key assignment

keycode 133 = Alt_L Meta_L
! this makes left win into alt

keycode 64 = Control_L
! this makes left alt into control 

keycode 37  = Super_L Super_L
! this makes left control into windows 

! keycode 37 = Alt_L Meta_L
! this makes left control into alt 


add control = Control_L Control_R
add mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L
add mod4 = Super_L Super_R

!clear control
!clear mod1
!clear mod4

Rather than navigate through the folder structure I'd find it easier to just use the drive URL that I could copy from - for example Firefoy. Like this:

rclone copy https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/some_id_from_gdrive .

Is it possible? or is it possible via some part of the URL?

I recently switched most of my work from Mac (back) to Linux - with no regrets.

The one thing I still need to figure out is how to control a browser via scripts from the command line.

Primary purpose is to control the currently running browser to fill in forms that I use repeatedly (i.e.: bank payments).

This is something that I used to do via AppleScript+JavaScript on Chrome and before that via perl+MozRepl on Firefox.

Key requirement

• the ability to read stdin - directly or not (via bash/perl scripting is ok)
• the ability to fill in forms (NOT via URL)
• NOT headless (this is for bank payments)

AppleScript is not available on Linux (duh!) and MozRepl has been deprecated a couple years ago.

Any (lightweight) solutions?

Is there a GUI for remapping the keyboard in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? For example, I want to swap ctrl, win and alt keys to win, alt and ctrl respectively. I've managed that with xmodmap but it's error-prone and complex. Since I'd like to change another couple things I was looking for a simpler workflow.

A search seems to point to gnome-tweaks or system settings, but they seem changed compared to - for example - 18.04 and I cannot find a keyboard-mapping section in either.

I'd like to avoid having to change things in xkb - seems a bit too complex and risky.