[openbox] repositioning of cursor on start up

[Anthony Thyssen]

Harry S. Thompson...

Thanks for the heads up on pyautogui.  Nice how it works for Linux, MacOSX
and Windows.
Though as a python API, rather than a command it is not directly usable
from autostart or openbox (menus, keys, etc).


As for the syntax...  If you do need to specify DISPLAY...

*DISPLAY=":0.0" xdotool mousemove 15805  370*

Directly defines DISPLAY as an environment variable JUST for the xdotool
command.  This is with BASH which all linux systems use as the shell.

However as mentioned it should not be needed.

As for why it does not work... something else may be moving the mouse,
perhaps the kiosk application itself?

If so, delaying the time when the mouse move happens run would probably
help...
xdotool has sleep built into it, so background it will let it work when the
sleep expires.

*xdotool sleep 30 mousemove 15805  370 &*

Which brings us to a different question...  DO you want to do this on
startup?

Wouldn't it be better as part of the 'reset sequence' the kiosk software
would be doing when it resets it's display for the next user?

Basically you may want to think about **when* *you want the cursor
positioned.






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On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 6:50 AM Henry S. Thompson <ht at inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> D.T. writes:
>
> > So you are saying this EXACT command works as desired from the
> > terminal:
> >
> >> export DISPLAY=:0.0 && xdotool move mouse 15805  370
> >
> > ???
>
> Jumping in here with a brief heads-up:  there are some signs that
> xdotool is not being actively maintained:  I hit a segfault problem
> recently for which no workaround was available, and switched very
> happily to pyautogui [1].
>
> If xdotool works for your needs, of course, carry on.
>
> ht
>
> [1] https://pypi.org/project/PyAutoGUI/
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