Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (174 mails)

[Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 26 of July 2009, Malte Gell wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> does anyone know a tool that shows the coordinates of the current mouse
> position? I looked at KDE4 and Compiz, but found no such thing, but I'm
> sure there is.

 What do you mean, show coordinates? If you want to see the position of the 
cursor, KWin has a compositing effect that marks the position when you press 
Ctrl+Meta, and I think Compiz has something like that too. If you really want 
the coordinates, the attached small utility can print it (gcc a.c -lX11 -o 
mousepos).

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#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
    {
    Display* dpy = XOpenDisplay( NULL );
    if( dpy == NULL )
        {
        fprintf( stderr, "Cannot connect to X server." );
        return 1;
        }
    Window root, child;
    int x, y, wx, wy;
    unsigned int mask;
    if( !XQueryPointer( dpy, DefaultRootWindow( dpy ), &root, &child, &x, &y, 
&wx, &wy, &mask ))
        {
        fprintf( stderr, "Cursor not on the current X screen." );
        return 2;
        }
    printf( "%d %d\n", x, y );
    return 0;
    }