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I was using the following code to get the coordinates of a point after a mouse click (keep in mind I was clicking on a random point on the screen, not on a figure):

import win32api
posvals = [[],[]]
x = 0
state_left = win32api.GetKeyState(0x01)
while x<2:
    a = win32api.GetKeyState(0x01)    

    if a != state_left:
        state_left = a
        print(a)
        if a >= 0:
            print('button down')
            z,y = win32api.GetCursorPos()
            posvals[x] = [z,y]

            print(z,y)
            x += 1
    time.sleep(.001)
print(posvals)

Here I saved the coordinates in posvals, and the while loop is there because I only wanted to record 2 clicks. I got and tweaked this code from another question on stackoverflow, but I'm not sure which one.

My current problem is that I'm using a Linux computer and the win32api module (its official name is pywin32) won't work since it is only for windows. How can I adjust (or completely restart) my code?

martineau
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So there is no easy way to port the code to linux, unless you run in wrapped with WineLib or equivalent wrapper software. One such explanation of this practice is here.

You could try other mouse position packages like PyMouse. This might be a better option. This question also has some good examples of other more agnostic package options for python mouse coordinates.

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