Hi, I'm trying out a little technique with extending my window manager. I'd not too elaborate but I'm not convinced it will work yet. All I need to know is, is there a program or an X function that will return the current absolute mouse coordinates without waiting for a move event or somesuch? For example, I move the mouse to the middle of the screen and type 'getcoords' (or whatever) in a previously selected xterm and it returns "600,400" or whatever.
Any ideas? If such a program exists, I think I can do something fairly cool with it. If not, and an X function call exists, I can write a wrapper. The only problem will be when the function requires the event to go to a window, although maybe something can be done with the root window there. So it's a global 'where-is-the-mouse' function I'm after. I'm a newbie when it comes to X programming btw, but experienced with linux/coding in general, so all ideas appreciated! :) Cheers, Dave. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
