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Asked: 2026-06-09T08:02:19+00:00

I am looking for a way to retrieve the cursor position to later set

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I am looking for a way to retrieve the cursor position to later set the position back with CGDisplayMoveCursorToPoint. I can’t find any function like CGDisplayGetCursorPosition in Quartz Display References.

Does anybody know how to retrieve the (absolute) position of the cursor in Mac OS X?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use one of the answers at Cocoa: Getting the current mouse position on the screen to get the mouse position in global coordinates.

    To call CGDisplayMoveCursorToPoint, get the display containing that position using CGGetDisplaysWithPoint, and then use the rect returned by CGDisplayBounds to convert the global point to a screen-local point.

    Or just use CGWarpMouseCursorPosition instead of CGDisplayMoveCursorToPoint, since CGWarpMouseCursorPosition just takes a global point and no display.

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