control: retitle -1 ITP: unclutter-xfixes -- hide the X mouse cursor after a period of inactivity, using XFixes control: owner -1 !
Hello, On Mon 30 May 2016 at 06:52PM +10, Scott Leggett wrote: > * Package name : unclutter-xfixes > Version : 1.1 > Upstream Author : Ingo Bürk <ingo.bu...@airblader.de> > * URL : https://github.com/Airblader/unclutter-xfixes > * License : Expat > Programming Lang: C > Description : unclutter-xfixes hides the mouse pointer after a period > of inactivity, to prevent it getting in the way. The pointer is shown again > on mouse movement. > > This version of unclutter is a rewrite of the original and uses the > x11-xfixes extension, which means that no fake windows or pointer > grabbing is needed. This may work better with window managers and > applications. After thinking about this a bit and reviewing old discussions, I think that using the alternatives mechanism is better than doing some sort of transition. I have prepared a patch to src:unclutter to implement that, and also I've prepared packaging of unclutter-xfixes which calls update-alternatives(1). Although unclutter-xfixes will work better for a lot of people, classic unclutter is working perfectly fine for other people, and there seems no need to impose a transition on the second group if it's not needed to benefit the first. -- Sean Whitton
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