Re: [dev] mapping keyboard buttons to move the mouse?

[Aurélien Aptel]

Actually, this is even simpler.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Aurélien Aptel<aurelien.ap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:46 AM, <hessi...@hessiess.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the application suggestions. how can I get the current cursor
>> location from the CLI?
>
> See attached file.
>

/* Compile: cc -lX11 xcursor xcursor.c */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	Display *dpy;
	Window junk1;
	unsigned int junk3;
	int x, y;
	int junk2;
	int r;

	dpy = XOpenDisplay(0);
	if (XQueryPointer(dpy, DefaultRootWindow(dpy), &junk1, &junk1,
			  &x, &y, &junk2, &junk2, &junk3) != 0) {
		printf("%d %d\n", x, y);
		r = 0;
	} else
		r = 1;

	XCloseDisplay(dpy);

	return r;
}