On Mon, 9 May 2022 07:09:57 -0400
Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
(...)
> xdotool getmouselocation does it once.
>
> You may wish to run it via watch in a tiny xterm and make that
> xterm always-on-top.
just for fun I wrote a little Python/Tk script that does what I believe
the OP wants (requires python3-tk):
#############################################################
#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
'''Shows a tooltip-like window that displays the
x- and y-positions of the mouse pointer on the screen.
Left-click into this window to quit the program.'''
# coordinates of upper left window corner, edit to fit your needs:
WINDOW_X = 0
WINDOW_Y = 0
from tkinter import *
from signal import signal
root = Tk()
root.withdraw()
l = Label(root, text='Mouse position:\nX: 9999 Y:9999',
width=18, relief='solid', bd=2)
l.pack()
l.is_running = 0
root.wm_overrideredirect(1)
root.wm_geometry('+%d+%d' %(WINDOW_X, WINDOW_Y))
def show_mouse_pos():
x, y = l.winfo_pointerxy()
l.configure(text='Mouse position:\nX: %d Y: %d' % (x, y))
if l.is_running:
l.after(100, show_mouse_pos)
def start():
l.is_running = 1
l.after(100, show_mouse_pos)
def quit(*args):
l.is_running = 0
l.after(200, root.quit)
root.bind('<1>', quit)
for sig in (2, 3, 6, 15):
signal(sig, quit)
root.update_idletasks()
start()
root.deiconify()
root.mainloop()
root.destroy()
#####################################################
Have a nice day,
Michael
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