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Selenium click chrome physical buttons like menu, left, right navigation, bookmarks

I'm working on a some automation work, as per my requirement I need to click on Chrome Physical buttons like left nav, right nav, bookmarks, menu etc. I can do with shortcuts but my requirement is to click on browser buttons. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

As per your question you want to click on Chrome Physical buttons like left navigation, right navigation, bookmarks, menu etc.
But if you look into the documentation in Selenium Home Page it clearly mentions that :
The entire suite of tools provided by Selenium results in a rich set of testing functions specifically geared to the needs of testing of web applications. These operations allow many options for locating UI elements and comparing expected test results against actual application behavior.
So factually Selenium by design interacts with the HTML DOM and the WebElements located in the DOM Tree
Now the desired controls e.g. left navigation, right navigation, bookmarks, menu are out of the DOM. Hence you cannot mock the click on those controls.
However all the Selenium Language Binding Art provides a handfull of methods to achieve the same result. Here are a few from the Selenium Python Binding Art :
Maximize : To maximize the browser window.
driver.maximize_window()
Minimize : To minimize the browser window.
driver.minimize_window()
Close : To close the browser window.
driver.close()
Quit : To close the browser window gracefully.
driver.quit()
Refresh : To refresh the url.
driver.refresh()
Forward : To move forward.
driver.forward()
Back : To move backwards.
driver.back()
And of-coarse Get : To invoke an url.
driver.get('http://google.com/')

There are functions for this that is built-in:
driver.forward()
driver.back()
https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/navigating.html#navigation-history-and-location
It doesn't appear that selenium can interact with the Bookmark, but let me check some more.

This can't be done with selenium webdriver and I think also not with the standalone selenium server. Selenium only allows to interact with the DOM.
The only way to achieve what you want to do is to use an automation tool that actually runs directly in the OS that you use. Java can be used to write such a program.
I would however recommend to not go this route. Instead try to convince whoever is responsible for your requirements to re-think and allow to use other means of achieving back and forward actions.

Selenium Java trying to click with remote webDriver

I have to test with selenium a Web Application.
This :
action.moveToElement(webElement,x,y).build().perform();
Is working for 99% of my web elements...
Now I have a web element that is not detected by Selenium IDE.
My boss explains to me that this web element is a kind of plugin. This web element display video from camera.
When I try with Selenium IDE my click isn't detected.
That's why I tryed to do it with action.moveToElement(webElement,x,y).build().perform();
I have a webPath (CSS XPath) for this web element. When I try
webdriver.findElement(By ...).click();
It's not working but I don't have an exception. I guess Selenium do a click and I don't understand why it's not working.
dailymotion.com is like youtube.com (I can't use youtube at work...)
When I try to click on pause on a daylimotion video Selenium IDE don't detect my click. I guess this is the same problem.
I have found this constructor : public Actions(Keyboard keyboard, Mouse mouse) but I don't know how to use it.
I think I can't use java.awt.Robot because I'm working with Selenium grid and I have a lot of node...
Any suggestion ?

If can't able to find the webelement you can use coordinates to simulate click..
Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
Action action= builder.moveByOffset(40, 40).build();//change the x and y coordinate accordingly
action.perform();

How to stop the user actions when webdriver is run?

I am using the selenium Chrome Driver to automate a process and also I want to restrict the user from clicking,scrolling or other suck events because the webdriver stops as soon the user performs such action.Do i need to use the JscriptDriver to add some javascript or is there any other way around?

Selecting an option in a CSS-based menu with WebDriver

I have a simple CSS-based dropdown menu, and I'm trying to click on one of the menu items in a Java Selenium (WebDriver) test.
Both the menu (<ul> element) and the items (<a>) have IDs and creating corresponding WebElement objects works fine. I'm trying to click on one of the items with code like:
hoverOver(transfersMenu);
transferLink.click();
In hoverOver(), I've tried all three answers from this question, but none of them work. I keep getting:
org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException:
Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
Command duration or timeout: 2.06 seconds
(I've tried calling transferLink.click() also before hoverOver(), in the hope that the implicit wait would make it work, but nope.)
Any idea how to make the hovering work so that the link can be clicked?
Selenium version 2.21.0. I'm running the tests on Linux (Ubuntu), using Firefox 13.0. A colleague just tried on Windows (using Firefox 12.0), and it didn't work for him either.
Update: As per Slanec's tip in comments, and these instructions, I tried setEnableNativeEvents(true) on the FirefoxProfile. At first this failed:
org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException:
Cannot perform native interaction: Could not load native events component.
...but after I upgraded to Selenium 2.23.1, I no longer get that complaint.
Still, the hovering doesn't work (with native events on or off). :-/

I use the following code to hover over our menus for 1 second, before clicking a link, just like the one you are using:
action = new SeleniumActionHelper(driver);
WebElement currentUser = findElementByLinkText("testing1");
action.mouseHover(currentUser);
Thread.sleep(1000);
Of note, the mouse cursor needs to remain in the browser window for the hover to keep. If the mouse cursor is outside of the browser window, I experience a quick flash of the menu, but it does not stay visible

Try this exampale:
WebElement menuHoverLink= driver.findElement(By.id("test"));
actions.moveToElement(menuHoverLink).perform();
driver.findElement(By.id("test")).click();
Thread.sleep(6000);

How do you run your test classes? I found out that running WebDriver through ANT makes hover actions impossible, whereas running the test classes from command line (TestNG JAR) or from Eclipse works just fine.

Mouse Listener Question

I am developing a screen capturing utility in Java & I want to capture any background window, when I click on that particular window. But I am not getting how to add mouseClicked event to background window. Can somebody please help me?

I may be way off base but if the other window is not a Java window then it should be outside the Java sandbox. To interact with it requires a native API which is anathema to Java.

Quite obviously as it is you can't interact with other application windows. It can be any random window in your case I presume. Therefore, your mouselistener approach is not correct.
Rather, try to approach it like fetching pixel information displayed on the screen. There is an awt package java.awt.Robot or something that could be used for your purpose. If you want to implement capturing of active window then see if there are java APIs to interact with O.S. and get information of current active window and it's pixel co-ordinates. The co-ordinates could then be supplied to the rectangle attribute that is used with java.awt.Robot APIs to define screen capture area.

If that window is not part of your application you can't do much with it.
Otherwise you just have to add the mouse listener to that window too.
What's your situation?

java.awt.Robot has a method createScreenCapture(Rectangle screenRect) to capture screenshots.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.html
however, to get the current active window you would have to use OS specific extensions (mostly via JNI)