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: RE: invisible mouse pointer? Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:14:46 -0800 Message-ID: <006001c9557b$687c3a40$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <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 1228331803 7188 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2008 19:16:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Thomas Fitzsimmons'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 20:17:46 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 1L7xE6-0003iu-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:17:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7xCw-0008Sy-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:16:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7xBY-0007Zy-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7xBW-0007XA-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:14:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52724 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7xBW-0007Wv-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:14:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:65099 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 1L7xBV-0004YQ-Oc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:14:53 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet13.oracle.com (acsinet13.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by rgminet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mB3JEbXQ032390 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:14:39 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt702.oracle.com (acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80]) by acsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mB3JF7Xs026993; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:15:09 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:14:46 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AclVeVwEX24xHf2LSxuULrpCcBozHwAAaMIA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010207.4936DAA7.010A: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:106526 Archived-At: > I also looked into this a while ago and couldn't find a way to > completely hide the pointer, so I wrote the attached patch. Ideally > this low-level functionality would be exposed through a new mouse > avoidance mode, as you suggest. Great - thx. I hope Emacs dev might consider adding the patch (or similar) after the release.