mousing in linux, center mouse, or place it top of screen or bottom, with short cut??

[Andrej Marjan]

On October 8, 2009 03:57:19 pm ted leslie wrote:

> so what i have now is good, but what would really be great is
> a ctrl sequence or alt key that would  center, top, or bottom
> position the mouse/cursor instantly,
> and i get zip in googles because the search words seem to be some
> common with about any discussion talking about mousing around,
> so i have found nothing on whether this is possible.
> for that matter, if there is any way to position the mouse
> via some simple command, i can write some script to run off
> a ctrl-<some key> in the gnome key binding settings.
> i hope someone has heard of something, else my next step is
> to look into hitting C/gmone programming to try and achieve it,
> or perhaps into X. maybe digging into some tablet X driver can
> give me some ideas, but i am just hoping someone knows of a
> tool or easier way to do this.

xte (part of xautomation) is supposed to be able to move the mouse with the 
mousemove command:

http://linux.die.net/man/1/xte
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