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   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).