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List:       xfree-xpert
Subject:    RE: [Xpert]I want an invisible mouse cursor
From:       Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovich () nvidia ! com>
Date:       2002-03-27 22:57:15
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Torrey Hoffman wrote:

> John Blanco wrote:
> > 	Does anyone know a quick way to make the mouse cursor 
> > in X invisible on
> > purpose? I'd like to put together a kiosk-like device (i.e. touch
> > screen) and I don't want the mouse arrow ever to appear...
> 
> I did it by making a custom cursor, and setting that as the cursor as 
> the second line of my xinitrc.
> 
> My custom cursor has just a single pixel. It's essentially invisible 
> on a TV screen. When debugging it's useful to be able to see something 
> on a VGA screen.   However, you could just as easily make it have no 
> pixels set at all for a completely invisible cursor.
> 
> then it's just: 
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -cursor /etc/X11/dot /etc/X11/dot
> 

   This only effects the root window (default) cursor.  It
doesn't prevent apps from installing their own cursors.  You'd
need an X-server hack to force client cursors invisible.  Though
I suppose if you wrote all the clients you'd be running, which
may be the case for a kiosk-like device, you could ensure that
the clients didn't install custom cursors.


				Mark.

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