How to send keystrokes to Chrome in Ubuntu?

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I would like my computer to press the Esc key every 2 minutes. How can I do this? With an app or shell script or otherwise?

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– Martin Zeltin
Aug 28, 2011 at 15:21 — Martin Zeltin, Aug 28, 2011 at 15:21

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You could use xdotool

while true; do
   xdotool key Escape
   sleep 120
done

You can specify a window with the --window option

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answered Aug 28, 2011 at 15:17

danjjl

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Brilliant! I didn't know about that one :)
– Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Aug 28, 2011 at 15:33

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