locate X mouse pointer?

Marshall Neill ramien43 at windstream.net
Thu Sep 29 21:04:02 CEST 2016


How about xdotool?   I was messing around after reading your posting was 
able to move the mouse via

xdotool mousemove_relative 20 20

and it move 20pixels both x & y.

Might be useful.




On 09/29/2016 11:52 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> In Xfce 4.12 there is still no function to show the position of the X
> mouse pointer, like in other desktop environments.
>
> I have several full screen applications where it is hard to find the mouse
> pointer, especially on a notebook in the sun :-}
>
> So far, my workaround is to bind
>
> xmessage -nearmouse -timeout 3 -buttons '' X
>
> to a key.
>
> Any better ideas?
>



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