How to capture mouse movement for the whole window in opencv python?

Question

I know and have seen tons of documentations explaining about how to capture mouse movement within a given window using mouseclick events in opencv. What I want to know is that if is there a way to capture mouse movements (x,y co-ordinates) for the entire screen of my system.

Any link, documentation or code snippet will be really helpful to proceed me with the same.

not with OpenCV. Use a proper GUI library – Miki Mar 27 '20 at 09:29 — Miki, Mar 27 '20 at 09:29
Any suggestions with the library? – Shivam Sahil Mar 27 '20 at 09:33 — Shivam Sahil, Mar 27 '20 at 09:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '20 at 10:19

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Depending on your OS, you can do that with pyautogui like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import time
import pyautogui

for i in range(10):
    x, y = pyautogui.position()
    print(f'Mouse position: x={x}, y={y}')
    time.sleep(1)

answered Mar 27 '20 at 10:19

Mark Setchell

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On **macOS**, you *may* need to double coordinates because of some pixel doubling thing I don't understand too well. – Mark Setchell Mar 28 '20 at 11:07

How to capture mouse movement for the whole window in opencv python?

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