Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:57:27 +0100 Bastiaan Hovestreydt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > >> Hi, >> >> since its possible I want to use my Freerunner with an USB mouse :-) >> I got it working flawlessly by plugging the mouse in while the phone is >> in host mode and removing the -hide-cursor argument from the ARGS >> variable in /etc/X11/Xserver. >> Unfortunately you have to restart your Xserver each time you want to >> show/hide the mouse cursor. I was wondering if there is a way to change >> the visibility of the cursor while the Xserver is running so I don't >> have to reboot every time I want to get rid of the cursor again. > > basically - no. there is no x extension or call to globally make a cursor not > visible or visible. thus it's a cmd-line option. you can make an attempt at > this in the window manager by setting root cursor to "blank" or "visible" BUT > amny apps and toolkits explicitly set cursors of their own on their own > windows > or on their widgets (eg a different cursor over text areas) and the root > cursor > is overridden here - thus the global disable option to not have to go patching > every app/toolkit and still possibly get a cursor.
What about setting a transparent cursor by default allowing to change theme (to a non-transparent cursor) on-the-fly? -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community