[Solved] Finding mouse position in bash

Statix · 2008-09-20 03:56:58

I'm looking for the simplest way posible to find the absolute current mouse position for X in bash (or with a simple cli program, hopefully possible with plain X!).

If there is no KISS way to do this I'll make my own program, but that probably shouldn't be necessary. I'm just trying to make gmrun start at the mouse cursor position.

Last edited by Statix (2008-09-21 02:05:20)

fflarex · 2008-09-20 06:31:12

Maybe you could do it with xev? It can give you mouse position info, but it may not be a good format for use in a script (for example, I'm not sure if you can do it without opening a new window for a short time).

Lord Illidan · 2008-09-20 06:42:51

I found this thread, could be useful to you?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=562087

foutrelis · 2008-09-20 10:29:02

You could give xdotool a try:

[foutrelis@foutboxd ~]$ xdotool getmouselocation
x:1047 y:552 screen:0

moljac024 · 2008-09-20 10:36:02

Check out this thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47833

It has exactly what you need.

Statix · 2008-09-21 02:04:53

Thanks all. Moljac's link was exactly what I was looking for.

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