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Anyone know how to banish the X mouse cursor?
I've been using evilwm for quite a while as my window manager and it doesn't require using a mouse. Recently I started using vimperator in my browser, so I don't use a mouse there. Basically, I touch the mouse quite infrequently.
Of course I still have a mouse pointer on the screen which I must manually put into a corner, but I thought there has to be a more automated solution. Ratpoison has a neat banish command which automatically throws the mouse in the corner when it starts. Is there any way to do that through X or something?
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Last edited by Hrod beraht (2009-03-26 21:17:21)
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You could also go so far as in xorg.conf:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
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You could also go so far as in xorg.conf:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
and what that do exactly?
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Allows you to run X without a mouse at all. Actually I think I tried it once and the mouse cursor icon was in the middle of the screen. So it's not what you want.
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This is most likely what you want. It hides the mouse after a configurable amount of inactivity.
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You could also use xdotool
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Or you could use a combination of unclutter and xdotool, like I do. Use unclutter to make the cursor invisible after 3 seconds, and create a keyboard shortcut in your WM to invoke:
xdotool mousemove 1280 800 #or whatever your resolution is
That achieves an effect pretty similar to Ratpoison's "banish" command".
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