Hide original mouse cursor

[jeffchannell]

When active, the original cursor is still visible.

[jeffchannell]

So, this is turning out to be complex...

The only way to reliably hide the cursor is to stick a window in front of it. Otherwise, the window under the cursor shows whatever cursor is supposed to be there.

The only way I’ve managed to reliably hide the cursor across (almost) the whole screen is to run an entirely separate, transparent window with a blank cursor. It still shows up on the top bar (unless I full screen the window, which hides the top bar).

Hopefully, I can somehow accomplish one of two things:

• launch the transparent window via the extension JS itself, and close it when the shake is done
• launch the transparent window in shell and somehow close it when the shake is done

These things seem similar but really it’s two different tasks. The first would be the best, but so far I can’t seem to hook a raw Gdk Window to the display (errors related to Clutter so I don’t know if this will ever work). The latter seems “easy” but losing the window once means a blocked UI.

[jeffchannell]

Branch “issue8” has been started to fix this, with the changes likely helping to also solve #9

I managed to get the window showing without calling out to a shell, so that’s a bonus for approval!

[jeffchannell]

Branch merged with testing.