From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: invisible mouse pointer?
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:46:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vwpcft6.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 001701c9556c$9e613750$c2b22382@us.oracle.com
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 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.
Hi! Drew,
may be that can help: (i use it here on stumpwm and it work fine)
but may be you want to do that only at the emacs level...
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| Homepage: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/unclutter-8.README
| Description: Hides mouse pointer while not in use.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-03 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-03 17:28 invisible mouse pointer? Drew Adams
2008-12-03 17:46 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2008-12-03 17:58 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-03 19:28 ` Jan Djärv
2008-12-03 19:52 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-03 20:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-03 18:58 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2008-12-03 19:14 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-03 11:50 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 14:39 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 17:26 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 17:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-03 18:30 ` Jan D.
2009-07-03 18:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-03 19:08 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 19:31 ` Leo
2009-07-03 22:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-03 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 19:13 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 19:21 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 23:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-03 16:14 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 19:25 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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