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I actually WANT a non-working Mouse :-)

I actually WANT a non-working Mouse :-)

Post by Ian Barr » Fri, 18 Aug 2000 04:00:00



Does anybody know how to turn the mouse pointer OFF under X?
Or if that isn't possible - how about moving it somewhere into the
corner?

Commenting out the InputDevice Mouse line in the ServerLayout
section causes the server (v4.01) to do the following:

   (EE) No core pointer device specified
   (EE) Unable to determine the screen layout
   (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()

   Fatal server error:
   no screens found

Ideas welcome ...

Thank-you ...

Ian Barry

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University of Bristol, UK

 
 
 
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I actually WANT a non-working Mouse :-)

Post by Kenneth R?rv » Fri, 18 Aug 2000 04:00:00



Quote:

>Does anybody know how to turn the mouse pointer OFF under X?
>Or if that isn't possible - how about moving it somewhere into the
>Ideas welcome ...

How about just using a 100% transparent pointer, the mouse will be there,
but not visible... don't know how to do it though.

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I actually WANT a non-working Mouse :-)

Post by Raffael Herzo » Fri, 18 Aug 2000 04:00:00


On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Ian Barry verbalised:

Quote:> Does anybody know how to turn the mouse pointer OFF under X?
> Or if that isn't possible - how about moving it somewhere into the
> corner?

There is a tool called "unclutter" which turns the pointer off after
the mouse has been idle for some time. When you use the mouse, the
pointer appears again.

Don't know where to get it, search the web.

--
Raffael Herzog

May the penguin be with you!

 
 
 
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I actually WANT a non-working Mouse :-)

Post by Johan Vroma » Fri, 18 Aug 2000 04:00:00



> Don't know where to get it, search the web.

I've got a binary RPM for RedHat.
Mail me if you want it.

-- Johan

 
 
 
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I actually WANT a non-working Mouse :-)

Post by mrianedwardba.. » Fri, 18 Aug 2000 04:00:00




Quote:> There is a tool called "unclutter" which turns

the pointer off after
Quote:> the mouse has been idle for some time. When you

use the mouse, > the pointer appears again.

Yep your idea works (from ftp.x.org).  Cheers!!

Although in the end I redrew the cursor using
xsetroot -cursor.  I didn't think this would
originally work as the manual page says it only
does its stuff over the root background window.
However I am running Netscape in full screen mode
and Netscape evidently (and obviously now I look
at it) uses the root window pointer bitmap.  This
is A Good Thing[tm].

Regards,

Ian Barry

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