Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 05:34:22AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: You can tell ffmpeg to screen capture one area of the screen and make a clip JFYI, apt-cache show ffmpeg [...] This package contains the deprecated ffmpeg program. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-09-21 Thread Albretch Mueller
Ksnapshot for capturing a screen shot ~ actually Ksnapshot has this functionality built-in somehow. You can tell it to make a snapshot of the current window instead of the whole screen ~ Are you trying to fix a lack in a video editing app without touching the app itself, or are you looking

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-09-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:48:32AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 22 iul 13, 13:18:50, Albretch Mueller wrote: I think I should have worded the question as: ~ any way to get the mouse position on the screen (so that then you would then take a second one in order to calculate the

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 iul 13, 13:18:50, Albretch Mueller wrote: I think I should have worded the question as: ~ any way to get the mouse position on the screen (so that then you would then take a second one in order to calculate the rectangular viewing area on a screen (showing a video))? ~ I think

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-09-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com wrote: I think I should have worded the question as: ~ any way to get the mouse position on the screen (so that then you would then take a second one in order to calculate the rectangular viewing area on a screen (showing

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-09-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 22 iul 13, 13:18:50, Albretch Mueller wrote: I think I should have worded the question as: ~ any way to get the mouse position on the screen (so that then you would then take a second one in order to

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-09-20 Thread Doug
On 09/20/2013 06:29 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com wrote: I think I should have worded the question as: ~ any way to get the mouse position on the screen (so that then you would then take a second one in order to calculate the

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-07-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 08:24:45PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: Thank you, lbrtchx If you have two mice, and need independent positions reporting for them, try MPX: http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/projects/mpx/ There's something of a howto here:

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-07-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
I think I should have worded the question as: ~ any way to get the mouse position on the screen (so that then you would then take a second one in order to calculate the rectangular viewing area on a screen (showing a video))? ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-07-21 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/20/13 at 09:55pm, Albretch Mueller wrote: Anyway I was trying to be the possibly least verbose I could. Whoever told you this was a good idea was lying. Be more verbose. Since I need to do some screen capture based on ffmpeg I need to know the pixel coordinates of the a rectangle on

any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-07-20 Thread Albretch Mueller
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Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-07-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 20:24 +, Albretch Mueller wrote: Thank you, lbrtchx One mouse cursor at two different positions at the same time? What is it good for? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-07-20 Thread François TOURDE
Le 15906ième jour après Epoch, Ralf Mardorf écrivait: On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 20:24 +, Albretch Mueller wrote: Thank you, lbrtchx One mouse cursor at two different positions at the same time? What is it good for? Schizophrenic people? Or maybe cut/paste speedup? I remember an old

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-07-20 Thread Albretch Mueller
One mouse cursor at two different positions at the same time? What is it good for? Schizophrenic people? ~ Is it not the very definition of schizophrenia to see and hear things other people haven't actually stated? ~ Anyway I was trying to be the possibly least verbose I could. Since I need

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-07-20 Thread Cousin Stanley
Albretch Mueller wrote: I need to know the pixel coordinates of the a rectangle on my screen and the easiest way I could think of getting that info is by positioning the the mouse at those two different places, in which case I would be physically constrained of doing it at the same