Hello Paul,

I noticed this note about that option facing deprecation in the Matchbox
documentation:

http://matchbox-project.org/documentation/manual/wm.html

> -use_cursor <yes|now>
> 
> If enabled, an attempt is made to hide the mouse cursor completely.
> This can be overridden by applications such as xterms. 
>         
> Warning
> This option will likely be depreciated in future releases, as it does
> not provide a 100% solution. An improved way of providing this effect
> is to use libXcursor with a 'blank' ( eg all cursors are fully alpha )
> theme. See http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/sources/utils/.

They link to the same transparent xcursor theme provided with Ångström.

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:51 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello Jeroen,
> 
> Saturday, May 19, 2007, 2:13:17 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > According to the Matchbox website (the window manager used in GPE) the
> > preferred method is using a transparent pointer-theme.
> 
>         According to the Matchbox website, version 1.2 of it should handle
> cursor hiding itself. This is the version used by Angstrom. So, if
> this doesn't happen, it's worth a bugreport.
> 
> > And you are in luck! It is already in the feeds:
> 
> > http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?action=details&pnm=xcursor-transparent-theme
> 
> > Kind regards,
> 
> > Jeroen Hoek
> []
> 


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