What is cliclick?

cliclick is an OSX automation command line program that allows to pragmatically move and click the mouse cursor.  It can also type shortcuts on the keyboard.

From the author's website:

“Cliclick” is short for "Command-Line Interface Click". It is a a tiny shell / Terminal application that will emulate mouse clicks or series of mouse clicks (including doubleclicks and control-clicks) at arbitrary screen coordinates.

Hence, it is a tool for automating / scripting things that cannot otherwise be scripted (for instance, using AppleScript). Other than GUI Scripting, it does not require "Access for assistive devices" to be activated in the System Preferences.

 

Modern releases are available on https://github.com/BlueM/cliclick

 

Download cliclick for Mac

Architecture

OSX Universal Binary

System Requirements

From Mac OS 10.4 up to Mac OS 11.6

Compatibility notes

Architecture: PPC + Intel x64 + ARM (see downloads list)

Mac OS X 10.4 - macOS 11.6

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: QEMU