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SwayFX: Sway, but with eye candy!
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Keep cursor active when hidden #266

Open iguanajuice opened 6 months ago

iguanajuice commented 6 months ago

Resolves this issue: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6297 And kinda resolves this one, too: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7853

This was denied in vanilla sway because "Invisible-but-still-active cursors are confusing." (I don't see how).

This not only would fix gaming when using hide_cursor when-typing, but it will also let you hover for a preview and have it not "despawn" after the timeout.

For example: if you read a Wikipedia page, there are links to other articles that you can hover over to show a preview for; problem is, when using hide_cursor [timeout], the preview goes away when the cursor hides since the cursor also "deactivates". This is extremely annoying.

Here are some links to Reddit of people complaining about hide_cursor's current behavior: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/10kevqd/avoid_using_the_option_hide_cursor_whentyping_by https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/n7m5d2/a_script_to_disable_hide_cursor_whentyping_when

I've been using this patch for a couple of days now and everything works fine. It's only a sloc change.

Sntx626 commented 1 week ago

I like this change, and I think it should be included in the project!

However, the functionality should be behind a config option. I also think the option should be inactive by default, to keep the notion of "drop in sway replacemnet".