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Airblader / unclutter-xfixes

Hides the cursor on inactivity (rewrite of unclutter)
MIT License
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Switch mouse off when inactive. #16

Closed amosbird closed 8 years ago

amosbird commented 8 years ago

There are situations the UI responds to the current cursor's position, such as viewing code on github and browsing in Intellij with ideavim when pressing Ctrl-d/u. Can we just temporarily switch off mouse or move it to some alien space that it never bothers current UI?

Airblader commented 8 years ago

Sorry, switching the mouse off just isn't possible. Moving the mouse away might work on some systems, but will badly break things on focus follows mouse systems. This is exactly the kind of hacks to hide a mouse that the original unclutter uses, so not something for this project. You might just want to use the original unclutter and hope that it works for you. :)

amosbird commented 8 years ago

@Airblader I tried the original one. It doesn't work either. Anyway, thanks for the detailed explanation :)

Airblader commented 8 years ago

I'm not too familiar with the original, but I think you'd need to use the noevents flag for the behavior you're looking for.

amosbird commented 8 years ago

ah, great. Thanks.