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Ralph Hofmann

7 Jan 2010 7 Jan '10

2:13 p.m.

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? Ralph

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Geoff Reedy

7 Jan 7 Jan

2:28 p.m.

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

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Ralph

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Gwern Branwen

2:31 p.m.

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

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Ralph

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

Adam Vogt

4:41 p.m.

* On Thursday, January 07 2010, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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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

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Ralph

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

-- gwern

Also, some applications also blank the pointer on keyboard input (or a delay): ! in ~/.Xdefaults, works for urxvt (rxvt-unicode) at least *pointerBlank: true -- Adam

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH

11:31 p.m.

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

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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

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic

11:39 p.m.

"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" writes:

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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.)

So a valid slogan would be "hhp: less broken than unclutter!" ? :p -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH

8 Jan 8 Jan

12:15 a.m.

On Jan 7, 2010, at 23:39 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" writes:

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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.)

So a valid slogan would be "hhp: less broken than unclutter!" ? :p

I think it *was* the slogan in one of the prereleases. :) -- 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

Mike Sampson

7 Jan 7 Jan

11:48 p.m.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Ralph Hofmann wrote:

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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?

I use a cursor theme[1] that has an animated cursor for text input. When the cursor is moved over a text field, it fades out to the point of almost being transparent, at least on a black terminal window which is what I use. This works well for me. Only downside is that I do loose the cursor every now and then. :) [1] http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/GT3?content=106536 Regards, Mike

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic

8 Jan 8 Jan

12:01 a.m.

Mike Sampson writes:

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Only downside is that I do loose the cursor every now and then. :)

Tablets (Wacom, etc.) are great in this regard, since the positioning is absolute rather than relative. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

Ralph Hofmann

11:24 a.m.

Thank you all. At first I have installed unclutter now, because it is available in the ubuntu package manager. No issues up to now. Ralph Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 20:13 +0100 schrieb Ralph Hofmann:

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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?

Ralph

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Adam Vogt
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Geoff Reedy
Gwern Branwen
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Mike Sampson
Ralph Hofmann