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.

Answer 1

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)