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none Rouben Rostamian

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May 25, 2011, 1:03:05 AM5/25/11
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Is there an X app that shows the coordinates of the mouse
pointer within a window?

Specifically, I want to display an image on my screen with an
image viewer (I use feh, xv, and imagemagic, etc., but I am
open to using some other viewer, if necessary.) Then I want
determine the coordinates of various points in the image that
I point to with the mouse. Is there a way?

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Julian Bradfield

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May 25, 2011, 4:28:15 AM5/25/11
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Yes. xv - press the middle button to see coordinates and pixel values
of the pixel under the pointer. If you want the root-relative
coordinates, just get the window origin with xwininfo.

Or is that not what you meant?

none Rouben Rostamian

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May 25, 2011, 10:36:52 AM5/25/11
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In article <slrnitpf...@krk.inf.ed.ac.uk>,

Yes, this is exactly what I meant. I am surprised that
after years of using xv, I was not aware of this middle
button functionality. Thank you very much for pointing
it out.

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Rouben Rostamian

arahne

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May 25, 2011, 4:38:07 PM5/25/11
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On 25. 05. 2011 07:03, none Rouben Rostamian wrote:
> Is there an X app that shows the coordinates of the mouse
> pointer within a window?

You can also download demo of ArahWeave, textile design software, which
also bundles full working version of ArahPaint4, a paint program.
http://www.arahne.si/download/software-demo/104.html

ArahPaint will always show you the mouse coordinates (even without clicking)
http://www.arahne.si/arah-paint.html
and has tons of other useful functions (depending on what you want to do).
http://www.arahne.eu/pdf/apaint4-EN.pdf
For the purists, it is also open source (GPL).
http://www.arahne.si/download/open-source/151.html

Best regards,

Dušan Peterc
http://www.arahne.si

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