On 11/27/2014 10:46 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: [...] > literally - many applications set their own cursor. when they set it they are > entirely in charge. often it's the toolkit itself that sets it, but it > literally is independent. e's own cursor has nothing to do with these > app/toolkit set cursors.
A pity it ended up that way, but it's the price we pay for the independence of the applications. On a Mac, for example, if you set the cursor size, it stays set across applications, even non-Apple ones. >> Which exists in many systems, including Ubuntu (which is what underlies >> my e); pressing the Ctrl key alone used to flash the cursor location. >> But that has now been removed for unfathomable reasons, which is why I >> am seeking an alternative. > > not removed. you are using e - it just isn't there to begin with. I'm sorry, I expressed that clumsily. On a system running Xubuntu/xfce (no e17) the Ctrl-key cursor-location flash has been removed. I wouldn't expect it to be in e -- that would need to be written as a utility (and it would be useful). In fact, according to private email from a reader who has lost write access to this list, there is: > a little utility called "unclutter" that removes the cursor after a > customizable timeout.. e.g. 2 seconds. Now, an unintentional (?) > benefit of this little gadget is that whenever I grab the mouse... > the cursor becomes visible and it automatically catches my eye. Which sounds like what I was looking for...thank you. ///Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
