Re: How move the mouse pointer using GTK ?

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 07:33, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> Am Do, den 09.09.2004 schrieb Tobias Werth um 11:47:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I need "paste" the mouse pointer to a determinate
> > > toolbar button, in this way when I resize the main
> > > window the mouse pointer automatically go over this
> > > toolbar button.
> > >
> > > Does anybody know how I do it? Clues or web sites
> > > (besides Googles, of course :) are welcomes.
> >
> > Did you or anybody else solve this problem? I want to move the mouse pointer
> > to a definite position and found nothing about mouse movements in gtk API.
>
> You can use the XTest-Extension for this task:
>
>       { move mouse pointer off screen }
>       XTestFakeRelativeMotionEvent(screen, -240, -170, 0);
>       XFlush(screen);
>
> Link your app with -lXtst then and it should work fine. Header is (on my
> system) in:
>
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/XTest.h

Why not simply use XWarpPointer ?