Since this problem comes up quite frequently I have made an article at: http://xfree86.linuxwiki.org/AdvancedTopicsFAQ
about how to do this. Egbert. Andrew C Aitchison writes: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, [gb2312] dddd tom wrote: > > > I want to hide the cursor when I using touchscreen in XFree86 4.20, > > I found that this quesstion have been discussed three times,but no > > answer.Then,does this means I can't hide the cursor at all? > > Can "xsetroot" resolve this problem? > > I tried but faild.I just can't change the cursor with it. > > I think that X fundamentally requires that you have exactly one cursor. > > You can however change the way it looks by changing the cursor font. > You can write a cursor font which has an invisible cursor, so the user > will not see anything. > (I don't remember the syntax, but there several ways of changing > cursor font). > > The only problem I see with that is that any application can change the > cursor font, and some applications use their own font, so you can't > guarantee that a cursor will never appear. However this will only happen > when such an application has focus, so should not be a major problem. > > -- > Andrew C Aitchison > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
