[xmonad] Mouse pointer: Always there?

[Adam Vogt]

* On Thursday, January 07 2010, Gwern Branwen wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Geoff Reedy <geoff at programmer-monk.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Ralph Hofmann said
>>> Is there a way to let the mouse pointer disappear after a few seconds of
>>> not using the mouse und let it reappear again, when the mouse is beeing
>>> used?
>>
>> There is a program called unclutter that does this. I've never used it
>> though.
>>
>> ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/utilities/unclutter-8.README
>> ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/utilities/unclutter-8.tar.Z
>>
>>>
>>> Ralph
>
>There is also hhp in http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-utils
>
>-- 
>gwern

Also, some applications also blank the pointer on keyboard input (or a
delay):

    ! in ~/.Xdefaults, works for urxvt (rxvt-unicode) at least
    *pointerBlank: true

--
Adam