Where Am I? Applet

Copyright © 2000 by Telsa Gwynne

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Where Am I? Applet

Where Am I? Applet

The Where Am I? applet, shown in Figure 1, shows the position of your mouse pointer on the screen, reporting the coordinates as x and y, where x is horizontal and y is vertical. The dimensions of an area on the screen can be determined by dragging the cursor after the Where Am I? applet has been activated.

To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Utility->Where Am I?.

Figure 1. Where Am I? Applet

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. Clicking on the Where Am I? will "grab" the cursor, causing it to change to a cross-hairs shape. Once the cursor has been grabbed, you can can drag the cursor to measure the dimensions of an area on the screen. A second click will ungrab the cursor, and restore normal operation.

Right-clicking on the applet brings up a menu containing the following items:

  • Help — displays this document.

  • About… — shows basic information about Where Am I? Applet, inluding the applet's version and the author's name.

Known Bugs and Limitations

This applet has no known bugs.

Authors

Where Am I? was written by John Kodis (). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports.

This manual was written by Telsa Gwynne (). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to . You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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