Plex and Folding at Home

I had Plex and F@H on my old Win7 server but am going to be upgrading and hoping to switch to a Linux environment (Ubuntu). On my old Win system, I used a program called Automate6 to do macro stuff. When someone started watching something on Plex and the Plex transcoding service started, Automate would click on the pause button on the F@H Control panel giving Plex all the processing power. Then when Plex was done with the transcoding service, Automate would click the play button on the F@H Control panel. Are their any macro type programs for the Ubuntu environment or can this be done in services??? I am new to the Linux world, have been playing with it for almost a month now so I do have some of the basics down.