[Bug 160112] Placement of I-Beam pointer before editing

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160112

--- Comment #5 from Juergen <all.online at posteo.eu> ---
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #4)
> Which desktop environment are you using, Juergen? I assume GNOME?
> 
> I am using Ubuntu 22.04 + GNOME 42.9, and when I click on text, the cursor
> changes to a pointer (unless I move again, in which case it's again an
> I-beam cursor).
> 
> Do you know of other applications that automatically move the cursor out of
> the way when clicking into text?
> I feel like I've never seen this kind of behaviour, and that if it existed,
> it should be an OS / Desktop Environment setting.
> 
> What do you think about auto-hiding the cursor when typing? That's requested
> in bug 97757.

Hi Stéphane Guillou,
I don't any other application where the I-beam goes out of the way while
typing. Not sure this needs to be implemented on the OS level, although it
would be applicable wherever somebody types like right now this comment, emails
and above all long texts for word processing.
I think auto-hiding the cursor while typing would work. Didn't think about it!
The whole point is, that the mouse-pointer is out of the way once a user starts
typing.
Unfortunately the suggested enhancement 97757 is from 2016-02-11 an not
implemented. That is a loooooooong time ago.

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