Hiding the pointer (was Re: [9fans] Arrow keys)

[elliott Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com]

Lucio de Re wrote:
> 
> > Turning the mouse off during quiet times is an old idea.
> > One design is to turn it off when a key is struck, and turn
> > it on again when the mouse is touched.
> >
> At the risk of sounding even sillier than usual, why is this not done
> anywhere?  The idea of waiting for a keypress sounds good, although a
> period of inactivity may be better for idiot utilities such as the
> Win'95 desktop where one spends long periods just staring at it and
> hoping that something intelligent will eventually occur :-)

It's done in lots of places. For example, I have a module (a
dynamically-loaded kernel module in modern parlance, I suppose) for RISC
OS that does this system-wide. Both hide-on-keypress and
hide-after-delay, if you choose. Most people go for hide-on-keypress
only, I find.

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