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Can a GNOME application be automated? I.e., can I programatically interact with its user inteface?

How?

flybywire
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    For what purposes you are looking at automation? I was looking at the answers are both of them being quite valid: Dogtail if it's more towards GUI testing; and probably DBus if you want to programmatically interact with a GUI app from your own app. – Seh Hui Leong Jun 19 '09 at 03:21

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While specifically designed to test GUIs, dogtail provides the functionality you are looking for.

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While I don't know much about it, try looking into ATK. I know there was a project a while back called facade (part of FVWM?) that used ATK to figure out the logical elements of an application and interact with and modify them.

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You should take a look at DBus.

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