Xnee

Developer(s)	GNU Project, Henrik Sandklef
Stable release	3.19 / May 6, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-05-06)[1]
Repository	cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/xnee/
Operating system	X11
Type	X11 Test
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.sandklef.com/xnee

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute user actions under the X11 environment. It can be used for testing and demonstrating X11 applications.[2] Within X11 each user input (mouse click or key press) is an X Window System event. Xnee records these events into a file. Later Xnee is used to play the events back from the file and into an X Window System just as though the user were operating the system.[3] Xnee can also be used to play or distribute user input events to two or more machines in parallel.[2] As the target X Window application sees what appears to be physical user input it has resulted in Xnee being dubbed “Xnee is Not an Event Emulator.”[3][4]

As Xnee is free software, it can be modified to handle special tasks. For example, inserting time stamps as part of the playback.[5]

Software suite

• cnee is a command line interface. Its name is a recursive acronym which means in English: “cnee's not an event emulator”.

• gnee is a graphical interface (recursive acronym meaning in English “gnee's not an emulator either”).

• pnee is a GNOME applet (recursive acronym meaning “pnee's not even emulating”).

• libxnee is a software library used by cnee, pnee and gnee. (recursive acronym meaning in English “libxnee is basically xnee”, which can be translated as “libxnee is the very essence of xnee”).

See also

• AutoHotkey
• AutoIt
• Automator (for Macintosh)
• Automise
• Bookmarklet

External links

• Official website
• X11::GUITest::record - Perl implementation of the X11 record extension
• X11::GUITest - X11 Recording / Playbook using Perl script

References

1. Sandklef, Henrik (6 May 2014). "GNU Xnee 3.19 ('Lucia') released". Retrieved 2019-08-30.
2. Henrik Sandklef (January 1, 2004). "Testing Applications with Xnee". Linux Journal. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
3. Jerry yin Hom (May 2008). "An Execution Context Optimization Framework for Disk Energy" (PDF). pp. 56–57. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
4. "Xnee FAQ". Free Software Foundation. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
5. Gregory Hartman; Jack Lin; Michael Merideth (December 12, 2002). "Methods for Recognizing Service Quiescence" (PDF). pp. 7–8. Retrieved August 14, 2009.