Turning the cursor off

[Dermot McGahon]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:15:27 +0100, Jörgen Lidholm  
<jlm01001 at student.mdh.se> wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 20:45 +0200, Håkan Persson wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> How can I, either through some shell script command or through
>> configuration files, turn off the cursor or maybe move it off the screen
>> (I have X version 6.8.2)?
>>
>> I am running Firefox as an information screen and I have no user input
>> so the pointer is unnecessary (irritating!).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Håkan
>
>
> I've seen this question earlier on this list.. Google found this for me:
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-January/005596.html
>
> It's a transparent cursor theme that should do the job for you!
> /Jörgen


There is also a program called unclutter that works well.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-changes/1995/10/msg00056.html


Dermot.
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