On Wednesday 14 November 2001 10:28, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Back with Red Hat, and then beginning with Mandrake 6.0, I used > this little (14k) utility to make the cursor disappear after about 5 > seconds of no mouse movement. IOW's, get it to heck out'a the way ;) > The cursor will re-appear where it was as soon as you move the mouse > again. It's been a Un*x feature forever. Well, 'bout Mandrake 7.2 I > could never get it to work any more ... gave up on it. > > Just recently I came across this Mandrake rpm made by one of the > cooker folks (Hans, Thanks!). > http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/unclutter-0.8-1mdk.src.rpm > > I did a rpm --rebuild on it and installed the rpm it wrote. Then > I used a text editor (your choice ;) to create a file I named > 'unclutter-start' (again, name is your choice) : > > #!/bin/bash > /usr/bin/kstart /usr/X11R6/bin/unclutter > > I 'chmod +x'd it to make it executable, and put it in my user > ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory. You can then either run (click on it) > 'unclutter-start', or the next (or any)time you start KDE, the cursor > will disappear after about 5 secs. of no mouse movement. IMO, this > should've been a KDE feature (option to enable) all along. I bet ya > other WM fans could find a similar way to start it. > > Try it, just bet you'll like it :)
I did, and I do! Thanks Tom! I had this feature when I had my Amiga, and thought it was a Great Idea (tm).
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