[openbox] repositioning of cursor on start up

Buntoo Bhat buntoobhat at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 15:49:24 EST 2021


That means i should directly write xdotool mousemove x y
Am i write or with some syntax or something like that?

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, 2:07 am Dana Jansens, <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:

> You shouldn't need to set a DISPLAY in autostart, it's running inside the
> X session that Openbox is.
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 2:57 PM Buntoo Bhat <buntoobhat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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