Re: Hiding the X cursor?

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:46:56PM +0200, Thomas Jaeger wrote: > Peter Hutterer wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Tyler McClung wrote: > >> Is there a way to hide the cursor on the fly without restarting the > >> server or window manager? > >> > > shouldn't XFixesHideCursor and

Re: Hiding the X cursor?

2009-07-16 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:30:39PM -0700, Tyler McClung wrote: > I am unaware of the issues with animated cursors, but it works great for > normal ones. Firefox is probably the most popular app that uses an animated cursor while it's loading a page. Systems that use matchbox are usually not powe

Re: Hiding the X cursor?

2009-07-16 Thread Corbin Simpson
On 07/16/2009 01:30 PM, Tyler McClung wrote: > I am unaware of the issues with animated cursors, but it works great for > normal ones. I noticed a bug where calling the hide cursor multiple > times causes a stacking effect. In order to make the cursor visible, > you have to call show cursor that

Re: Hiding the X cursor?

2009-07-16 Thread Tyler McClung
I am unaware of the issues with animated cursors, but it works great for normal ones. I noticed a bug where calling the hide cursor multiple times causes a stacking effect. In order to make the cursor visible, you have to call show cursor that many times before the effect is noticed. Als

Re: Hiding the X cursor?

2009-07-16 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:46:56PM +0200, Thomas Jaeger wrote: > Peter Hutterer wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Tyler McClung wrote: > >> Is there a way to hide the cursor on the fly without restarting the > >> server or window manager? > >> > > shouldn't XFixesHideCursor and

Re: Hiding the X cursor?

2009-07-16 Thread Thomas Jaeger
Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Tyler McClung wrote: >> Is there a way to hide the cursor on the fly without restarting the >> server or window manager? >> > shouldn't XFixesHideCursor and XFixesShowCursor do the job? > (disclaimer: haven't actually used it) On

Re: Hiding the X cursor?

2009-07-15 Thread Tyler McClung
XFixes was the way to go. I was worried that the package wasn't on the system and I didn't feel like putting it there. Luckily it was included and all I had to do was patch matchbox. Attached is the diff file if anyone wants to patch theirs. I patched matchbox-remote to accept another op

Re: Hiding the X cursor?

2009-07-15 Thread Olaf Ruppert
Use unclutter or XFixes #include XFixesHideCursor(dpy,root); On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Tyler McClung wrote: >> It seems I came in a little too late to reply on the old thread, but >> that's fine. >> >> I'm attempting to (t

Re: Hiding the X cursor?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Tyler McClung wrote: > It seems I came in a little too late to reply on the old thread, but > that's fine. > > I'm attempting to (temporarily) hide the cursor in an embedded system > running matchbox-window-manager. I am able to hide the mouse for all

Hiding the X cursor?

2009-07-14 Thread Tyler McClung
It seems I came in a little too late to reply on the old thread, but that's fine. I'm attempting to (temporarily) hide the cursor in an embedded system running matchbox-window-manager. I am able to hide the mouse for all newly opened windows, but old windows do not change. I do not want to