Where Am I? Applet

Telsa Gwynne

This is version 1.0 of the Where Am I? Applet manual.

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Where am I?

Where am I?

The Where am I? applet shows the position of your mouse pointer on the screen, reporting the co-ordinates as x and y, where x is horizontal and y is vertical. It is part of the gnome-applets package. This section of the guide refers to the version from gnome-applets-1.1.2.

To add this applet to the panel, you can click mouse button 3 on an empty part of the panel and select Applets->Utility->Where Am I?

This applet was writen by John Kodis (). Please send all suggestions and bug reports about it to the GNOME Bug Tracking Database, or use the command bug-buddy from a prompt. For the package name, put "gnome-applets".

Usage

You don't need to do anything special to use this applet. It will report the position of your cursor as you move your mouse about.

This applet is very useful if you wish to set up programs to start in particular areas of your screen. For that, you need to tell those programs the --geometry option to use. The numbers it uses are precisely those which this applet reports.

The following options are available.

  1. If you press mouse button 1 over the applet, your cursor will change. If you then move it to somewhere on your screen and press button 1again and hold it down whilst moving the mouse about, the applet will report the relative position of the cursor from that point, rather than the overall position.

  2. Holding down mouse button 2 on the applet lets you move it about in the same way as you move any applets.

  3. Pressing mouse button 3 over the applet brings up the standard list of options for applets, including an About box and the link to this guide. There is no properties box to play with for this applet.

Known bugs and limitations

There are no bugs known for this applet.