Re: Mouse blanker?
On 2015-10-06 13:19:47 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> I think you only need to restart X, not reboot, as it runs
> automatically from Xsession (I presume).
I confirm. BTW, this is probably a bad idea to start it automatically
because a normal user cannot override such a setting. Alternatively,
if /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter could check the user's default
options, this would allow the user to disable unclutter.
> However, I haven't discovered a useful configuration myself
> (jessie, X, fvwm).
Ditto.
> 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.
As I've chosen fixed-width tabs, I don't have this problem. But there's
another one, still with Iceweasel: tooltips disappear as soon as the
mouse pointer disappears.
> 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).
Normally, when I want to click a button, I need to move the mouse
first, so that the mouse pointer is visible during this time anyway.
> Adding -keystroke (± removing -idle) appears to make unclutter
> impotent...so I uninstalled it.
The bug was reported 5 years ago:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597402
(and 9 years ago in Ubuntu).
> After all, xterm and mplayer do uncluttering themselves anyway.
Emacs can do that too, but only for self-inserting characters.
That's OK in most common cases.
But I would really need this for Iceweasel.
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