Hello,

A while back I made a remote control that sends packets over the network which were received by an application on a Windows PC that would move the mouse or right/left click according to what is pressed on the remote, this of course being extremely useful while watching movies on my laptop or giving a presentation at work .

I have been wondering for a while whether I would be able to make a Linux version of the server-side receiver that would move the mouse pointer in X by a specified amount as I am not as familiar with all the Linux sys headers as I would like to be :L ..

I can't port it easily unfortunately because the previous version was written in C# plus the Socket, Windows API and .Net functions to move the mouse are obviously very different from that of X-Server and Linux! All I really need to know is the way to move the mouse pro grammatically as Linux socket programming has loads of tutorials out there fortunately .

I intend to write the Linux version (if possible) in C++ , any help or advice on how to achieve this would be great!

Thanks in advance!

DoctorZeus

You need Xlib programming.

There are many APIs to move cursor like Move
Check this sample code

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2743

compile this with -lXlib option.

That looks to be exacly what I am looking for, Thanks alot!

DoctorZeus