X11 forwarding and sending keystrokes

[Jaji17]

Hi!

I'm newbie at using xdotool and I was trying to do the following in my Centos 6.5, xdotool (xdotool-2.20110530.1-7.el6.x86_64), kernel 2.6.32, xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.13.0-23.1.el6.centos.x86_64:

I opened a PuTTY terminal and execute an xterm to open a new terminal xterm &
Then I get the ID of this new terminal with xdotool search --name "myterminal"
Finally I execute xdotool key --window "ID" 2 to send a 2 to the terminal but nothing happens.
I checked also the ID of the terminal with xwinfo

I used it with windowfocus and windowsactivate, but I'd like to avoid it if possible. Also, is there any possibility of speeding the process, everytime that I send an keystroke, the execution of the command xdotool key 2 line is quite slow for my purposes.

I want to open as several terminals and then send them a chain of keystroke as fast as possible with some delay between keystrokes.

I also have another issue, having my little script xdotool

!/usr/bin/xdotool

windowfocus $1
type "Hi, how are you"
key 7

It doesn't press number 7 after typing Hi, how are you, it types Hi, how are youkey 7. How can I solve it?

Thank you very much, sorry but I'm a newbie!