I'm not sure this wouldn't drive me crazy, but that's the virtue of Linux, 
freedom of choice.


On Wednesday 14 November 2001 18:23, Mitch Thompson wrote:
> 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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