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1 | .\" -*-nroff-*- |
| 2 | .TH xqueryptr 1 "18 March 2022" "Straylight/Edgeware" "xtoys" | |
| 3 | .SH NAME | |
| 4 | xqueryptr \- query pointer state | |
| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 6 | .B xqueryptr | |
| 7 | .RB [ \-d | |
| 8 | .IR display ] | |
| 9 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 10 | The | |
| 11 | .B xqueryptr | |
| 12 | reports the current state of the pointing device as four integers: | |
| 13 | .I screen | |
| 14 | .I x | |
| 15 | .I y | |
| 16 | .IR mask . | |
| 17 | .PP | |
| 18 | The | |
| 19 | .I screen | |
| 20 | identifies which screen (in the technical X11 sense) the pointer is on | |
| 21 | in decimal, and is nowadays almost always 0; | |
| 22 | .I x | |
| 23 | and | |
| 24 | .I y | |
| 25 | give the pointer position relative to the top left corner of the screen | |
| 26 | in decimal; and | |
| 27 | .I mask | |
| 28 | gives the button and modifier state in hexadecimal. | |
| 29 | .SS Options | |
| 30 | .TP 5 | |
| 31 | .BI "\-d, \-\-display " display | |
| 32 | Choose which display to connect to. | |
| 33 | .SH BUGS | |
| 34 | Hopefully none. | |
| 35 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 36 | .BR XQueryPointer (3x). | |
| 37 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 38 | Mark Wooding (mdw@distorted.org.uk). |