How to find a button's XY coordinates on screen and click at it?

I need to find a button's XY coordinates on screen using this button's image and then click at it. I can do this task on windows using AutoHotKey Image search. And I found out that ubuntu AutoHotKey alternative is AutoKey. But I couldn't find a way to do an image search on AutoKey. Does anybody know how to achieve this task?

1 Answer

You can obtain the current mouse coordinates with xdotool:

xdotool getmouselocation

For use in a script, use

eval $(xdotool getmouselocation --shell)

This will create shell variables you can easily retrieve elsewhere in a script:

echo $X $Y

will print the coordinated.

Caveat this only works when you use Xorg (but then, also Autokey works only on Xorg).