However, it shows that a right-click was made and the mouse moved to the entry on the context-menu and clicked. I personally prefer to use the former over the latter, however both forms work.Īs you can see in the first image that cliclick was selected and the mouse, show as a text cursor, is right over the selection, then when the cliclick commands were executed, it opened the man page Terminal window for it, although these isn't one. can be used in place of x,y axis coordinates e.g., +0,+0 for the relative position of the mouse. Note: The full command line above can also be expressed as,Ĭliclick kd:ctrl c.

m:+5,+5 - Move the mouse five pixels on the x,y axis relative to where the mouse is presently.Ĭ:+0,+0 - Click relative to where the mouse is presently.

c:+0,+0 - Click relative to where the mouse is presently.

I do not use FastScripts, however the example command should help you to understand what to pass cliclick to do whatever it is you're trying to do. The image below is cropped but is presented to show it tried to open the manual page for cliclick. The image below is what appeared and was clicked when the cliclick command line was executed. The image below shows the command line twice just so you can plainly see the full command line in the first line as part is obfuscated in the second line that's preforming the actual clicking on the I said attempt to open because cliclick doesn't have a manual page but will use the command line to preform some actions that will control-click ( right-click) to bring up the context menu, move the mouse to click Open man page as I've selected cliclick in the command line before pressing enter to execute the command line.

Since you already know how to double-click with cliclick, my answer focuses on the right-click and traditionally on a Mac one used to preform a right-click via control-click, and as such you need to do the same thing when using cliclick.Īs an example, using cliclick in Terminal, it will attempt to open the manual page for cliclick.

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