From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: invisible mouse pointer? Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:28:55 -0800 Message-ID: <001701c9556c$9e613750$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228325375 14683 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2008 17:29:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:29:35 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 18:30:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L7vYN-0001jq-KI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:30:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7vXD-00083a-0y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:29:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7vX7-000839-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:29:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7vX5-00082x-GQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:29:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60312 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7vX5-00082u-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:59144 helo=rgminet12.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L7vX4-0006UY-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rgminet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mB3HSl7f010563 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:28:49 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt706.oracle.com (acsmt706.oracle.com [141.146.40.84]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mB3HT2SA020181 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:29:04 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:28:55 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AclVbJ4XAwcbYxnnTr20DRuc5laY3Q== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt706.oracle.com [141.146.40.84] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090204.4936C1DA.0040:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106520 Archived-At: Is it possible to make the mouse pointer invisible (disappear)? I don't mean by, say, setting its color to the frame's background color on all characters of a buffer's text. I mean by, say, setting `x-pointer-shape' to a value (e.g. nil?) that (somehow) causes the pointer to disappear. I couldn't find anything about this, but it could be useful. Is there a good workaround, if the feature doesn't exist? One use could be to have an on-demand mouse: hide the pointer until you move the mouse (then hide it again after a timeout period). In some ways (for some people), that might be better than mouse-avoidance mode, which just gets the pointer out of the way without making it disappear. I know some that some applications have such a feature - PowerPoint comes to mind, but I think I've seen it elsewhere also. If this were implemented, it could be made available by setting `x-pointer-shape' to some value, but then code would need to manage the disappearance and re-appearance. Or `mouse-avoidance-mode' could perhaps have a new value, `vanish', which would automatically manage the timeout etc.