I need to simulate some mouse events and keyboard events for my project and

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Asked: June 13, 20262026-06-13T08:06:35+00:00 2026-06-13T08:06:35+00:00

I need to simulate some mouse events and keyboard events for my project and

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I need to simulate some mouse events and keyboard events for my project and having trouble finding much information about the same.

I tried out the original X11 code for simulating mouse which I got from the stackoverflow post, it seems to work fine but I’m not able to understand the code:

void mouseClick(int button)
{
   Display *display = XOpenDisplay(NULL);

   XEvent event;

   if(display == NULL)
   {
      fprintf(stderr, "Errore nell'apertura del Display !!!\n");
      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
   }

   memset(&event, 0x00, sizeof(event));

   event.type = ButtonPress;
   event.xbutton.button = button;
   event.xbutton.same_screen = True;

   XQueryPointer(display, RootWindow(display, DefaultScreen(display)), &event.xbutton.root, &event.xbutton.window, &event.xbutton.x_root, &event.xbutton.y_root, &event.xbutton.x, &event.xbutton.y, &event.xbutton.state);

   event.xbutton.subwindow = event.xbutton.window;

   while(event.xbutton.subwindow)
   {
      event.xbutton.window = event.xbutton.subwindow;

      XQueryPointer(display, event.xbutton.window, &event.xbutton.root, &event.xbutton.subwindow, &event.xbutton.x_root, &event.xbutton.y_root, &event.xbutton.x, &event.xbutton.y, &event.xbutton.state);
   }

   if(XSendEvent(display, PointerWindow, True, 0xfff, &event) == 0) fprintf(stderr, "Error\n");

   XFlush(display);

   usleep(100000);

   event.type = ButtonRelease;
   event.xbutton.state = 0x100;

   if(XSendEvent(display, PointerWindow, True, 0xfff, &event) == 0) fprintf(stderr, "Error\n");

   XFlush(display);

   XCloseDisplay(display);
}

so I wanted to ask if there were any simpler abstractions over the xlib library without going through all these as i even need to simulate keyboard actions which could be used with g++.