How to get rid of the mouse pointer ?

From: Tomas Styblo <tripie_at_cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 16:54:54 +0200

I see no reason to display a mouse pointer on a device controlled
by touch-screen and stylus. It's annoying and gets in the way. No
other GUI for touch-screen based devices displays it (Opie,WinCE..).

Matchbox and xkbd manage to hide it, but other GPE apps do not.

I think it would be nice if GPE had a configuration directive to
enable/disable display of the mouse pointer globally. We should
not remove it completely, because without the pointer it's
impossible to use x2x to control the ipaq.

I am thinking of adding a new configuration directive to the X
server. When enabled, the pointer would never be displayed.

Unfortunately I have no experience with XFree source code. I hope
someone more capable will be interested enough to implement it.

Thanks.

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Tomas Styblo <tripie_at_cpan.org>
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Received on Fri Apr 18 2003 - 14:54:57 EDT

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