Back with Red Hat, and then beginning with Mandrake 6.0, I used this little (14k) utility to make the cursor disappear after about 5 seconds of no mouse movement. IOW's, get it to heck out'a the way ;) The cursor will re-appear where it was as soon as you move the mouse again. It's been a Un*x feature forever. Well, 'bout Mandrake 7.2 I could never get it to work any more ... gave up on it.
Just recently I came across this Mandrake rpm made by one of the cooker folks (Hans, Thanks!). http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/unclutter-0.8-1mdk.src.rpm I did a rpm --rebuild on it and installed the rpm it wrote. Then I used a text editor (your choice ;) to create a file I named 'unclutter-start' (again, name is your choice) : #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/kstart /usr/X11R6/bin/unclutter I 'chmod +x'd it to make it executable, and put it in my user ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory. You can then either run (click on it) 'unclutter-start', or the next (or any)time you start KDE, the cursor will disappear after about 5 secs. of no mouse movement. IMO, this should've been a KDE feature (option to enable) all along. I bet ya other WM fans could find a similar way to start it. Try it, just bet you'll like it :) -- ������Tom Brinkman � � � � � � � � Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x --with -daisy_cutters /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
