On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
|>On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
|>> Thanks for any help you can provide,
|>
|>I guess you are using a touch-screen ?
A Compaq IA-1, actually, turning into a digital picture frame.
Having the cursor in the middle of the screen is a bad thing. :)
It has a wireless keyboard with integrated mouse, but I'm not
modifying the device to leave the wireless port on (so in effect,
the keyboard and mouse will no longer exist).
It's more a hack to see if it can be done.
|>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.
After digging around a bit, this is what I did. I made blank xbm
files for the cursor with mask, and just set it with:
xsetroot -cursor none.xbm none.xbm.mask
none.xbm:
#define cursor_width 16
#define cursor_height 16
#define cursor_x_hot 1
#define cursor_y_hot 1
static unsigned char cursor_bits[] = {
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00};
none.xbm.mask:
#define cursor_width 16
#define cursor_height 16
static unsigned char cursor_bits[] = {
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00};
It is a bit of a hack since the mouse is really still there, but at
least it isn't showing up anymore.
|>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).
It would be nice if you could disable it altogether -- having the
start-up option allowMouseOpenFail is great, but making the mouse
non-existant, now that would be convenient (although I imagine it
would be difficult internal to the X server, since it's probably
a core intrinsic).
Thanks for the help from all, I appreciate it.
--Matt
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