automate X keyboad and mouse with xdotool

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move mouse 1 pixel every minute (to avoid screen timeouts or afk status)

# while true; do xdotool mousemove_relative --sync 0 1; sleep 60; done &

same as above for for only the next 8 hours

# for i in {1..480}; do xdotool mousemove_relative --sync 0 1; sleep 60; done &