Re: Screen rotation -- My two cents
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM, wrote: > james wrote: > > I have experienced the frustration of trying to use the mouse pad when > > in ebook mode (actually not quite ebook mode, since you have to open the > > XO a bit to get your finger on the mousepad). The reason I need to do > > it is that when I'm using View Slides the enormous mouse arrow blocks > > part of the picture on the screen, so I want to move it out of the way. > > What would be far better would be to have the mouse pointer simply hide > > itself when the mouse pad or mouse hasn't been used in awhile. It would > > $ yum install unclutter > $ unclutter & > > (and add it to .xsession) You can also do this in the Activity code using the set_cursor method of gtk.Widget. Perhaps in response to a timer, which gets reset by mouse move events over your reading area. That wouldn't require any additional steps by the user. -Wade ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Screen rotation -- My two cents
james wrote: > I have experienced the frustration of trying to use the mouse pad when > in ebook mode (actually not quite ebook mode, since you have to open the > XO a bit to get your finger on the mousepad). The reason I need to do > it is that when I'm using View Slides the enormous mouse arrow blocks > part of the picture on the screen, so I want to move it out of the way. > What would be far better would be to have the mouse pointer simply hide > itself when the mouse pad or mouse hasn't been used in awhile. It would $ yum install unclutter $ unclutter & (and add it to .xsession) =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Screen rotation -- My two cents
I have experienced the frustration of trying to use the mouse pad when in ebook mode (actually not quite ebook mode, since you have to open the XO a bit to get your finger on the mousepad). The reason I need to do it is that when I'm using View Slides the enormous mouse arrow blocks part of the picture on the screen, so I want to move it out of the way. What would be far better would be to have the mouse pointer simply hide itself when the mouse pad or mouse hasn't been used in awhile. It would reappear when the pad is touched. I have seen software that does this (Powerpoint, I think, and Yahoo Go for TV) so maybe there is a way to accomplish this on the XO as well. Or maybe I could set up a key combination to toggle the mouse pointer visibility. But how, in Python, can I hide the mouse pointer? I haven't been able to find anything on that using The Google. James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
