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Old 03-17-2006
Question Cursor position
Is there a way of finding the current cursor position (line & column) within AIX
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Old 03-17-2006
getyx macro in curses.h

is that what you are looking for !!!
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Old 03-17-2006
The curses library provides a way to do this for C code working from inside a window:

void getyx(WINDOW *win, int y, int x);
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Old 03-17-2006
Yes that helps thanks,

I don't suppose there is a shell command
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Old 05-05-2009
For all people coming from google
I know this is a old Thread but it is very hard to find a easy solution via Google.

So this is what i have found:

Its a little python script:

from Xlib import X, display
d = display.Display()
s = d.screen()
root = s.root
a=root.query_pointer()
b=a._data
print "x="
print b["root_x"]
print "y="
print b["root_y"]
d.sync()


Just save it as foo.py and run it from CommandLine


found it there (German)
Last edited by hamster; 05-05-2009 at 06:24 PM.. Reason: fixed grammar or let's say i have tried
 
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