Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-10-06 13:19:47 -0500, David Wright wrote: > I think you only need to restart X, not reboot, as it runs > automatically from Xsession (I presume). I confirm. BTW, this is probably a bad idea to start it automatically because a normal user cannot override such a setting. Alternatively, if

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@shentel.net): > On Saturday 03 October 2015 17:43:49 Mike Castle wrote: > > > Installed by default, meh. > > > > But I'm pretty sure it is enabled by default. > > > > cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter > > # /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter > > # This file is

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 09:16:11 -0400 Gene Heskett sent: > One of the things that are a little bit like being nibbled to death > by ducks, is the lack of a mouse blanker in linux, something that was > part of and automatic in Amigados 20 years ago. > > I'm refering of course to shut

Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; One of the things that are a little bit like being nibbled to death by ducks, is the lack of a mouse blanker in linux, something that was part of and automatic in Amigados 20 years ago. I'm refering of course to shutting the mouses pointer image off when you start typing

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2015 09:37:37 Charlie wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 09:16:11 -0400 Gene Heskett sent: > > One of the things that are a little bit like being nibbled to death > > by ducks, is the lack of a mouse blanker in linux, something that > > was part of and aut

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Mike Castle
Well, -idle 0 will hide it right away. But it'll get lots of false positives about thinking you've stopped moving the mouse. And unclutter has been around for just over 23 years now. mrc

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2015 13:07:46 Mike Castle wrote: > Well, -idle 0 will hide it right away. But it'll get lots of false > positives about thinking you've stopped moving the mouse. > > And unclutter has been around for just over 23 years now. > > mrc It should be installed by the installer

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Mike Castle
Installed by default, meh. But I'm pretty sure it is enabled by default. cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter # /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter # This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed. if [ -e /etc/default/unclutter ] then . /etc/default/unclutter fi if [ -x

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 October 2015 23:16:30 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > the author. That was one of the 2 things I lost when I made the > > transition to linux in 1998, the other was the instability of Amigados, > > sometimes crashing several times a day. > > W.r.t crashing several times a day, you can

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2015 17:43:49 Mike Castle wrote: > Installed by default, meh. > > But I'm pretty sure it is enabled by default. > > cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter > # /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter > # This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed. > > if [ -e

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> the author. That was one of the 2 things I lost when I made the > transition to linux in 1998, the other was the instability of Amigados, > sometimes crashing several times a day. W.r.t crashing several times a day, you can easily recover this feature with a little cron job, Stefan