Re: [xmonad] Mouse pointer: Always there?

On Jan 7, 2010, at 14:31 , Gwern Branwen wrote:

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Geoff Reedy wrote:

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On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Ralph Hofmann said

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Is there a way to let the mouse pointer disappear after a few seconds of not using the mouse und let it reappear again, when the mouse is beeing used?

There is a program called unclutter that does this. I've never used it though.

ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/utilities/unclutter-8.README ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/utilities/unclutter-8.tar.Z

There is also hhp in http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-utils

And as unclutter can trigger odd behavior, hhp is preferred. (Both unclutter and hhp technically break the rules; hhp does so in a way that breaks fewer programs.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH