I need to be able to record the mouse movements every so often (every .2 of a second for example) and have them in a coordinate representation instead of a diff.I found the following script:#!/bin/bashwhile :docat /dev/input/mice | read -n 1datesleep 1doneBut it doesn't seem to print anything to the terminal (or perhaps it's all gibberish). Other discussions suggest that /dev/input/mice is deprecated. On top of that, /dev/input/mice wouldn't actually have the data in a friendly format.Am I going to have to do the conversion manually (from the format in the /dev/input files), or is there an API for this? 
bash script to detect and record mouse movements?
mouse;devices;input
Try the following command :xdotool getmouselocation 2>&1 |    sed -rn '${s/x:([0-9]+) y:([0-9]+) .*/\1 \2/p}'See http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/