Command Line GUI program control

[Kljuka]

Is there any program or a way to control opened programs in graphical environment?
I would like to control Open Office and Firefox from command line (eg.: save document, open new document, copy/paste text, ...).

I've been looking for this for years...

[Dayofswords]

i have thought about this too... hope you find something

[TheSqueak]

For KDE applications, there is the qdbus (http://usrlocalbin.blogspot.com/2008/04/qdbus-tutorial-part-one.html) command, but that's not much help for firefox and openoffice.


There are a limited number of command line options you can use with Firefox, you can find them here (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments) (or Google's cached version here (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8RUm60euW7AJ:kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments+firefox+command+line+option s&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk) as the Mozillazine KB appears to be down)


There doesn't seem to be much available for Open Office though ...

[Kljuka]

Thanks for reply.

Unfortunately Firefox provides very limited command line options (there's no way to save opened page...).

I remember a friend mentioning some kind of program to control GUI programs in Microsoft Windows OS.