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 automatic in Amigados 20 years ago. > > > > I'm refering of course to shutting the mouses pointer image off when > > you start typing in an editor, and only bring it back when the > > typing has stopped because you reached for and moved the mouse a few > > pixels. > > > > I haven't a clue how many times I have clicked on the spot where I > > wanted to insert some text, only to have to stop and move the mouse > > off it so I can see what I typed. It can be a distracting, even > > maddening interruption in ones train of thought. > > > > Is there such a critter, and I just don't know how to activate it? > > I think unclutter is what you seek? > > Charlie
Maybe Charley, but the command "unclutter -keystroke" which should do what I want according to the manpage, does not, it just hangs that shell till I hit a ctrl+c. Launched with an & after it does return, but the mouse pointer is also unaffected. What am I missing? "Aha, sudo unclutter -keystroke" does work, apparently globally. But only once, now it has stopped working. But it was still running, so I killed it. But a relaunch, as root, backgrounded with a -reset -idle 1 & set of arguments does appear to be working. Thanks Charley, I think it will do a similar job with a -idle at a setting of .25 seconds. Not exactly instant like Amigados did it, but close enough for the girls I go with. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
