xdotool emulates user actions under the X Window System (e.g. typing, mouse around, click etc.). I'm using it to send keypresses to the browser, as you rightly

xdotool emulates user actions under the X Window System (e.g. typing, mouse around, click etc.). I'm using it to send keypresses to the browser, as you rightly observe. So if I want to just reload a page, the browser gets F5. To GOTO some page, it gets a stream of keystrokes for the URL characters and then Enter. It's really that simple-minded, and it works! This case statement covers my usage: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/hotreload.sh#L114 https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/hotre...