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unclutter is a program which runs permanently in the background of an
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X11 session. It checks on the X11 pointer (cursor) position every
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few seconds, and when it finds it has not moved (and no buttons are
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pressed on the mouse, and the cursor is not in the root window) it
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creates a small sub-window as a child of the window the cursor is in.
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The new window installs a cursor of size 1x1 but a mask of all 0, ie
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an invisible cursor. This allows you to see all the text in an xterm
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or xedit, for example. The human factors crowd would agree it should
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make things less distracting.
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This is an "old-school" X11 app, from the days before desktop
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environments. To run when X starts, add "unclutter &" to your .xinitrc,
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before the line that execs your window manager.
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