Main script

So it's a service that's running in background and listens for pointer's button to be pressed. Once it's happen it writes state to external file, where it's being read by the same script run by Generic Monitor XFCE4 plugin.

Dependences

xinput
comm
xfce4-genmon-plugin

Description

Code

To get the script run

git clone http://git.speran.info/mouse_indicator.git mouse_indicator

Configuration

You will want to edit the second line of mouseIndicator.sh script to put there a path where the script is stored. And put any part of name of your pointer in the 3rd line. To see a list of avaliable pointers try xinput --list. This line goes to startup settings:

sh -c "/$PATH/.bin/mouse_indicator/mouseIndicator.sh"

Next you will want to add a Generic Monitor panel button and configure it to run this script every second. So the command must look like

/path/to/the/script/mouseIndicator.sh mon