[openbox] repositioning of cursor on start up

Buntoo Bhat buntoobhat at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 14:45:26 EST 2021


export DISPLAY=:0.0 && xdotool mousemove 15805  370

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, 12:17 am D.T., <ohnonot-github at posteo.de> wrote:

> So you are saying this EXACT command works as desired from the
> terminal:
>
> > export DISPLAY=:0.0 && xdotool move mouse 15805  370
>
> ???
>
>
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, 12:15 pm D.T., <ohnonot-github at posteo.de> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > first of all, do not "sir" us please. We are not all male, and we
> > > do
> > > not subscribe to the hierarchical structure this suggests.
> > >
> > > About your question:
> > > I don't think openbox has an option to do that.
> > > Maybe Xorg has, but I couldn't find it. Try "man xorg.conf".
> > >
> > > As a crutch, you can use xdotool in autostart.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > o.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 23:53 +0530, Buntoo Bhat wrote:
> > > > sir is there a way by which i can change the position of cursor
> > > > (which by default appears in the centre of screen)  to a choice
> > > of my
> > > > location on start up in openbox in terms of x and y coordinates
> > > on
> > > > display
> > > >
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