X11-GUITest for full screen apps

rajesh_pati has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I successly used X11-GUITest-0.21 for sending commands from my code to a window. But can anyone please point me how to use this library for full screen 3D games that have no window names? I apologize if this has a trivial answer but I am kind of new to linux OS. Specifically if I start gedit my($winID) = WaitWindowViewable('gedit') --returns with an Id that I can use it --but I cannot do the same for a 3D game that opens in a full screeen Thanks, Rajesh

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Re: X11-GUITest for full screen apps by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 06, 2010 at 20:52 UTC
I'm no expert in the matter, but it seems very likely that the game is completely bypassing the X11 windowing system and talking direct to the display driver.	[reply]
Re: X11-GUITest for full screen apps by Anonymous Monk on Nov 06, 2010 at 20:24 UTC
Use GetInputFocus to get the window which has focus or use http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CTRONDLP/X11-GUITest-0.21/eg/FindWindowLike.pl to dump all the windows, the game should be in there -- if not, sleep for a few seconds and assume the game has taken over the screen and start clicking Or configure your x11 system to disable a full-screen root window	[reply]