[XFree86] How to hide the mouse pointer

2003-07-13 Thread Pieter Hulshoff
Hello all, This question seems to pop up from time to time, but I haven't quite found an answer to it yet: is it possible to hide the mouse pointer, and if so: how? Can I have it moved automatically out of sight or can it be simply hidden by XFree86? Can this be done straight from the config

Re: [XFree86] How to hide the mouse pointer

2003-07-13 Thread Christian Convey
I've never tried this, but perhaps you could replaces all of the mouse cursor sprites with all-transparent sprites? I suspect this would give you the effect you're seeking. - Christian Pieter Hulshoff wrote: Hello all, This question seems to pop up from time to time, but I haven't quite found

Re: [XFree86] How to hide the mouse pointer

2003-07-13 Thread Pieter Hulshoff
I've never tried this, but perhaps you could replaces all of the mouse cursor sprites with all-transparent sprites? I suspect this would give you the effect you're seeking. Sounds like a good idea. Now to find where the cursorspec is hanging out, and I can get Gimping. :) Would an empty

Re: [XFree86] How to hide the mouse pointer

2003-07-13 Thread Pieter Hulshoff
Sounds like a good idea. Now to find where the cursorspec is hanging out, and I can get Gimping. :) Would an empty cursor file work too? I think I just found an alternative way to achieve my goal. As I'm running 1 program on top of X (an SDL front-end to MAME I wrote this weekend), I can just

Re: [XFree86] How to hide the mouse pointer

2003-07-13 Thread Peter \Firefly\ Lund
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Pieter Hulshoff wrote: I think I just found an alternative way to achieve my goal. As I'm running 1 program on top of X (an SDL front-end to MAME I wrote this weekend), I can just disable the cursor using the proper SDL commands. Some quick tests seem to indicate this is

Re: [XFree86] How to hide the mouse pointer

2003-07-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 06:47:02PM +0200, Pieter Hulshoff wrote: An alternative would be to go back about a day or two in either this list or the devel list (can't remember which). You are correct; my apologies. I'd been Googling on the topic for about an hour before I sent my email, but