Mouse pointer: Always there?
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
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Ralph Hofmann said
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
Ralph
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Geoff Reedy <geoff@programmer-monk.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Ralph Hofmann said
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
Ralph
There is also hhp in http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-utils -- gwern
* On Thursday, January 07 2010, Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Geoff Reedy <geoff@programmer-monk.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Ralph Hofmann said
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
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
On Jan 7, 2010, at 14:31 , Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Geoff Reedy <geoff@programmer- monk.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Ralph Hofmann said
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
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> writes:
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
On Jan 7, 2010, at 23:39 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> writes:
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
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Ralph Hofmann <hofmann2004@arcor.de> wrote:
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
Mike Sampson <mike@sambodata.com> writes:
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
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:
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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