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Hrod beraht

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Registered: 2008-09-30

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[Solved] Banish my mouse!

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?

Bob

Last edited by Hrod beraht (2009-03-26 21:17:21)

bwalk

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Registered: 2007-03-21

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Re: [Solved] Banish my mouse!

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Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

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Re: [Solved] Banish my mouse!

xwarppointer

You could also go so far as in xorg.conf:
Section "ServerFlags"
  Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"

leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

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Re: [Solved] Banish my mouse!

xwarppointer

You could also go so far as in xorg.conf:
Section "ServerFlags"
  Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"

and what that do exactly?

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Procyon

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Re: [Solved] Banish my mouse!

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.

rson451

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Re: [Solved] Banish my mouse!

community/unclutter

This is most likely what you want.  It hides the mouse after a configurable amount of inactivity.

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moljac024

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Re: [Solved] Banish my mouse!

You could also use xdotool

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finferflu

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Re: [Solved] Banish my mouse!

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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