Programmatically select region

[tobimensch]

Hey,

just learned about slop, installed it from Fedora repositories, and now I dig it.

This could come in really handy for me, if it was possible to select a region from the
command line, for example like this:
slop --region x1,y1,x2,y2
And preventing the mouse from changing or closing the region.
slop --region x1,y1,x2,y2 --nomouse
Then I could programmatically close it with killall slop.

I want this so I can use slop to show the user to which part of the screen he should pay attention and similar stuff.

Kind Regards.

[noscript]

This would be very handy, I'm also looking for a possibility to draw a persistent overlay rectangle on the screen.

[bakkeby]

On the same topic I think it would be useful to be able to set the starting position for the mouse (i.e. the first click) via a parameter. The reasoning is that if you were to have a script that is triggered via a mouse click then you could (re-)use that position rather than forcing the user to click again for the slop starting position.