Question
Is it possible to imitate keyboard input via Command Line or Python Code in digitalocean headless Ubuntu?
- Posted January 16, 2017
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Is it possible to imitate Keyboard input via Command Line or Python Code? If possible, do I have to additionally install some kind of Dependencies to make keyboard input? I am worried that I can’t generate keyboard input because digitalocean linux doesn’t have real keyboard or input device attached to it.
I am currently using Selenium with python, and there are lines of code which imitates keyboard input to a Firefox browser. For example,
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys driver.find_element_by_tag_name(‘body’).send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + ‘t’)
Unfortunately, this code doesn’t work, after trying a lot of tests.
I found that the code I used actually runs well on my local linux, which has real keyboard device.
I think I’m sure that being unable to give keyboard input is not Selenium nor other third-party software problem. I guess the problem resides in the fact that Ubuntu is headless and doesn’t have input device attached to it.
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I’ve not personally worked with Selenium, though I did find a few posts that may hopefully help you out.
http://www.alittlemadness.com/2008/03/05/running-selenium-headless/
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The code (from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys driver.findelementbytagname(‘body’).send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + ‘t’)) is in digitalocean Ubuntu, and Everytime I run the code I can confirm that the code isn’t working.