| 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). |