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I'd call that plain engineering; you've separated out the independent logic from the point where it actually touches the system. That's how stuff should be built and operate.
Ah, I hadn’t even considered that Xdotool would be… well for X11. Thanks mentioning this, so I’ll know what the problem is next time I try to use my auto clicker script and it doesn’t work.
What kinds of things do you guys automate?