On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Matt D. Robinson wrote: > Hi, all. I haven't seen an option or mechanism to remove the "X" mouse > pointer/cursor from the screen in situations where I don't want to run > X with a mouse (I don't want the mouse pointer to appear ever). I know > you can set -allowMouseOpenFail, but that still leaves the cursor in the > middle of the screen. > > Is there a mechanism for disabling this via XF86Config? I haven't > tried the "hw_cursor" method (yet, I'll try it later tonight), but > I didn't think this was directly related (this is a cheap Cyberblade > i7 graphics system). > > Thanks for any help you can provide,
I guess you are using a touch-screen ? The assumption of exactly one pointer is pretty deep in X, so the idea of disabling the cursor really appropriate. What you should do is change to a cursor font which displays a blank cursor. You could do this in your app, or write a simple app that has a blank cursor and a window that covers the whole background of the screen. Although we now have the traditional cursors and the new red ones, I don't know how you can set the default cursor family from XF86Config; it is something I'd like to see before 4.3 is released (it might be there, but I haven't found the documentation yet). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
