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

[Aurélien Aptel]

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 -lXt xcursor xcursor.c */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <X11/Intrinsic.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;

	XtToolkitInitialize();
	dpy = XtOpenDisplay(XtCreateApplicationContext(), NULL,
			    "xptr", "xptr",
			    NULL, 0,
			    &argc, argv);

	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;
}