<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">james wrote:<br>
> I have experienced the frustration of trying to use the mouse pad when<br>
> in ebook mode (actually not quite ebook mode, since you have to open the<br>
> XO a bit to get your finger on the mousepad). The reason I need to do<br>
> it is that when I'm using View Slides the enormous mouse arrow blocks<br>
> part of the picture on the screen, so I want to move it out of the way.<br>
> What would be far better would be to have the mouse pointer simply hide<br>
> itself when the mouse pad or mouse hasn't been used in awhile. It would<br>
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</div>$ yum install unclutter<br>
$ unclutter &<br>
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(and add it to .xsession)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can also do this in the Activity code using the set_cursor method of gtk.Widget. Perhaps in response to a timer, which gets reset by mouse move events over your reading area.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That wouldn't require any additional steps by the user.</div><div><br></div><div>-Wade</div><div><br></div></div>