diff --git a/packages/remote-input/src/backends/nutjs.ts b/packages/remote-input/src/backends/nutjs.ts
index 64b1c0f..8304268 100644
--- a/packages/remote-input/src/backends/nutjs.ts
+++ b/packages/remote-input/src/backends/nutjs.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { resolveModifiers } from '../modifiers.js';
+import { isInputDebugEnabled } from '../debug.js';
 import type {
   InputEvent,
   MouseMoveEvent,
@@ -142,6 +143,19 @@ export class NutJsInputBackend implements InputBackend {
     const { screen } = await getNut();
     this.screenWidth = await screen.width();
     this.screenHeight = await screen.height();
+
+    if (isInputDebugEnabled()) {
+      // The other half of a mis-placed click: if this disagrees with the
+      // display's real geometry (Retina reporting physical pixels while
+      // setPosition expects logical points, say), every coordinate is scaled
+      // wrong and no settle delay will save it.
+      console.log('[InputInjector:debug] screen geometry from nut-js', {
+        width: this.screenWidth,
+        height: this.screenHeight,
+        platform: process.platform,
+      });
+    }
+
     return { screenWidth: this.screenWidth, screenHeight: this.screenHeight };
   }
 
@@ -169,6 +183,28 @@ export class NutJsInputBackend implements InputBackend {
     // a delay is a sub-millisecond blip that many controls simply ignore.
     await settle();
 
+    if (isInputDebugEnabled()) {
+      // Read the pointer back from the OS. If `actual` does not match
+      // `requested` here, the settle above is too short and the click is
+      // landing somewhere other than where the guest aimed.
+      let actual: { x: number; y: number } | null = null;
+      try {
+        actual = await mouse.getPosition();
+      } catch (error) {
+        console.warn('[InputInjector:debug] could not read pointer back', { error });
+      }
+
+      console.log('[InputInjector:debug] button', {
+        action: event.action,
+        button: event.button,
+        normalized: { x: event.x, y: event.y },
+        requested: { x, y },
+        actual,
+        drift: actual ? { x: actual.x - x, y: actual.y - y } : null,
+        screen: { width: this.screenWidth, height: this.screenHeight },
+      });
+    }
+
     switch (event.action) {
       case 'down':
         await mouse.pressButton(button);
diff --git a/packages/remote-input/src/debug.test.ts b/packages/remote-input/src/debug.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6987eca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/remote-input/src/debug.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { isInputDebugEnabled } from './debug.js';
+
+describe('isInputDebugEnabled', () => {
+  const original = process.env.PAIRUX_DEBUG_INPUT;
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    if (original === undefined) delete process.env.PAIRUX_DEBUG_INPUT;
+    else process.env.PAIRUX_DEBUG_INPUT = original;
+  });
+
+  // The tracing prints the coordinates of everything the remote peer clicks
+  // and costs a window-server round trip per button event, so silence has to
+  // be the default rather than something a build flag happens to give us.
+  it('is off unless explicitly enabled', () => {
+    delete process.env.PAIRUX_DEBUG_INPUT;
+    expect(isInputDebugEnabled()).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('is on for exactly "1"', () => {
+    process.env.PAIRUX_DEBUG_INPUT = '1';
+    expect(isInputDebugEnabled()).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  // Anything truthy-looking but not "1" stays off, so a stray value in a shell
+  // profile cannot quietly turn tracing on in a packaged build.
+  it('ignores other values', () => {
+    for (const value of ['0', 'true', 'yes', '']) {
+      process.env.PAIRUX_DEBUG_INPUT = value;
+      expect(isInputDebugEnabled()).toBe(false);
+    }
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/remote-input/src/debug.ts b/packages/remote-input/src/debug.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d81ad65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/remote-input/src/debug.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/**
+ * Per-event input tracing, off unless `PAIRUX_DEBUG_INPUT=1`.
+ *
+ * Exists to answer questions that cannot be settled by reading the code —
+ * above all, whether the pointer is actually where we asked it to be by the
+ * time a remote click's button event goes down. The OS applies synthetic
+ * moves on its own schedule, so that ordering is only observable at runtime.
+ *
+ * Off by default: it reads the cursor position on every button event, which
+ * is a round trip into the window server, and it prints the coordinates of
+ * everything the remote peer clicks.
+ */
+export function isInputDebugEnabled(): boolean {
+  return process.env.PAIRUX_DEBUG_INPUT === '1';
+}
diff --git a/packages/remote-input/src/injector.ts b/packages/remote-input/src/injector.ts
index 2b8d184..73f461c 100644
--- a/packages/remote-input/src/injector.ts
+++ b/packages/remote-input/src/injector.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   type InputBackendSelection,
 } from './factory.js';
 import { InputRateLimiter, validateInputEvent, type RejectionReason } from './safety.js';
+import { isInputDebugEnabled } from './debug.js';
 import type {
   InputBackend,
   InputDiagnostics,
@@ -287,6 +288,21 @@ export class RemoteInputInjector {
     const remaining = new Set(this.heldButtons);
     if (event.action === 'down') remaining.add(event.button);
     else if (event.action === 'up') remaining.delete(event.button);
+
+    if (isInputDebugEnabled()) {
+      // The two-cursor bookkeeping around a click. A restore firing between a
+      // down and its up would yank the pointer mid-click and is invisible from
+      // the backend's own trace, so it is recorded here.
+      this.logger.log('[RemoteInput:debug] click dispatch', {
+        action: event.action,
+        dragging,
+        heldBefore: [...this.heldButtons],
+        remainingAfter: [...remaining],
+        borrowedFrom: this.borrowedFrom,
+        willRestore: remaining.size === 0,
+      });
+    }
+
     if (remaining.size > 0) return;
 
     await this.restoreLocalPointer();