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new cursor blanker in outland: unclutter

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chad Brown)
Sat Jan 15 03:02:40 1994

To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 03:02:19 EST
From: Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>


Currently in outland for sun, dec, rs6k, vax, and rt (yeah, I said
`rt'.  Remember those? :-) is `unclutter', a cursor blanker for X.
This version fixes some of the problems that existedin the previous
version.  From the manpage:

   NAME
     unclutter - remove idle cursor image from screen

   SYNOPSIS
     unclutter [-display|-d display] [-idle seconds] [-jitter pixels] [-grab]
     [-noevents] [-reset] [-root] [-onescreen] [-not] name ...

   DESCRIPTION
     unclutter removes the cursor image from the screen so that it does not
     obstruct the area you are looking at after it has not moved for a given
     time.  It does not do this if the cursor is in the root window or a but-
     ton is down.  It tries to ignore jitter (small movements due to noise)
     if you have a mouse that twitches.

Bug reports/comments/etc to bug-outland@mit.edu


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