On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Tyler McClung wrote: > It seems I came in a little too late to reply on the old thread, but > that's fine. > > I'm attempting to (temporarily) hide the cursor in an embedded system > running matchbox-window-manager. I am able to hide the mouse for all > newly opened windows, but old windows do not change. I do not want to > restart the wm for the changes to be global. Here are the things I've > tried: > > 1. Apply an invisible mouse theme via matchbox-remote -theme > Fail: Did not change anything > > 2. Configure/change default icon file to point to xcursor-transparent > Fail: Works for new windows + root, but not for old windows (works if > wm is restarted) > > 3. Send events to matchbox-window-manager by rewriting the source > code for the wm as well as matchbox-remote. > Fail: Does the same thing as attempt 2. > > I believe the reason why 2 and 3 do not work is matchbox or X > maintains a cache of the applied cursors for each window that is open > and does not mess with the cache for windows that are already open. I > am unsure if this is how it really works, but I am having trouble > changing the old windows. > > Is there a way to hide the cursor on the fly without restarting the > server or window manager? > > If you're wondering why, I'm attempting to write a little program to > toggle the view of the cursor on the system because the user may want > to use the touchscreen, the touchpad, or a mouse; plus some programs > would be cooler without the cursor. >
shouldn't XFixesHideCursor and XFixesShowCursor do the job? (disclaimer: haven't actually used it) Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
