GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute user actions under the X11 environment. It can be used for testing and demonstrating X11 applications.^[2] Within X11 each user input (mouse click or key press) is an X Window System event. Xnee records these events into a file. Later Xnee is used to play the events back from the file and into an X Window System just as though the user were operating the system.^[3] Xnee can also be used to play or distribute user input events to two or more machines in parallel.^[2] As the target X Window application sees what appears to be physical user input it has resulted in Xnee being dubbed “Xnee is Not an Event Emulator.”^[3][4]

As Xnee is free software, it can be modified to handle special tasks. For example, inserting time stamps as part of the playback.^[5] It can also be used to automate tasks, like distributing actions (e.g. teacher shows students) and changing files. ^[6]

• cnee is a command line interface version of Xnee (recursive acronym of “cnee's not an event emulator”).

• gnee is a graphical interface (recursive acronym of “gnee's not an emulator either”).

• pnee is a GNOME applet (recursive acronym of “pnee's not even emulating”).

• libxnee is a software library used by cnee, pnee and gnee. (recursive acronym of “libxnee is basically xnee”).

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