From: Chris Higgins (chris.higgins at domain horizon.ie)
Date: Wed 08 Aug 2001 - 16:52:01 IST
> Hi,
> I am just wondering how I can record the mouse
> coordinates on a unix desktop to a text file. I have
> tried using 'strace xeyes' for example but i can't
> seem to find the coordinates in any of the output. I
> would like to get the coordinates from xeyes, is there
> any other tool apart from strace that would show me
> this ? or any other tool apart form xeyes ? All i need
> to do is dump the output to a text file and then i can
> extract the mouse coordinates using perl or soemthing,
> any help/ideas would be great. Thanks a million
xev ? will track mouse location - but are you trying to duplicate
the functionality of xeyes - in which case looking at the
source code may help...
If it's to get the size and location of the xeyes application,
then you should look at xprop....
>
> Donal
>
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