Use winexe to open windowed application remotely

Question

I have to open an application like broffice on WINDOWS that is on AWS EC2 and write a text on it. This application is obviously windowed and I have to execute it from a Linux Server. I'm trying to use winexe, but I think that it does not open windowed apps. Is it possible to show windowed applications and performs clicks and writes tests on it remotely? Please, do not worry about what I want to do after show window. I need run windowed applications remotely and show the window.

Answer 1

I fix our problem creating a secure REST WS that receive a key and execute the command internally. It works in a queue of remote commands and return us the answer code. With this code we validate if our command was correctly executed or not. Other solutions found: use servlet, soap or queues, or virtualmanager. All those solutions was discarded because, or was very complicated for our problem or we don't have permission to execute, or will generate security problems.

Answer 2

You could use winexe to call another tool that can handle the UI automation for you. It looks like Autoit may be able to do what you need via creating a script and compiling aut2exe. https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/