Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@shentel.net):
> On Saturday 03 October 2015 17:43:49 Mike Castle wrote:
>
> > Installed by default, meh.
> >
> > But I'm pretty sure it is enabled by default.
> >
> > cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter
> > # /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter
> > # This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed.
> >
> > if [ -e /etc/default/unclutter ]
> > then
> > . /etc/default/unclutter
> > fi
> >
> > if [ -x /usr/bin/unclutter ] && [ "${START_UNCLUTTER}" = "true" ]
> > then
> > /usr/bin/unclutter ${EXTRA_OPTS} &
> > fi
>
> Unfortunately, in my testing it did not work, and didn't work until I had
> specified the -reset option. Without that, it only works once.
>
> So I have edited my /etc/default/unclutter so the options line now reads
> what made it work here:
>
> EXTRA_OPTS="-idle .1 -reset"
>
> And I'll see if it works by default after the next reboot. Uptime is now
> 9 days and I usually have to reboot at some point after 20+ days.
I think you only need to restart X, not reboot, as it runs
automatically from Xsession (I presume).
However, I haven't discovered a useful configuration myself
(jessie, X, fvwm).
I've got used to the feature where, when you close a non-rightmost tab
in iceweasel, the tabs don't immediately recalculate their size: the
tabs to the right of the one that closed just slide along to the left,
putting the next tab's close button under the cursor. If the cursor
gets uncluttered away, everything recalculates immediately, just like
it does when you move the mouse out of the tab bar: not what I want.
But it's worse than just that. With a real mouse, it's difficult to
click a button without making a tiny mouse movement which, of course,
immediately redisplays the cursor. OTOH with a laptop, it's far too
easy to click a button without seeing exactly where the cursor was
left, or what has since appeared under it (as above).
Adding -keystroke (± removing -idle) appears to make unclutter
impotent...so I uninstalled it. After all, xterm and mplayer do
uncluttering themselves anyway.
I'd rather have a tool that makes the cursor flash when it reappears
or whenever a user-defined key is pressed.
Cheers,
David.
