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X With No Mouse Cursor

Posted by timothy on from the black-tape-and-will-power dept.

innocent_white_lamb writes "I am using an X-based menu that doesn't recognize a mouse. Keyboard input only. I load the menu with the command "startx -e menu", which loads the menu and gets stuff going without any need for a window manager. The problem is that the mouse cursor sits in the middle of the screen and, without a mouse attached, there appears to be no way to move it or get rid of it. I've asked around and nobody seems to have run into this situation before. So my question is, how do you get rid of the mouse cursor under X without using a window manager?"

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  1. XFREE 4.3 by YOU+ARE+SO+FIRED! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Make a cursor theme that makes the cursor invisible or a single pixel or something. That's the easy way. And you're fired.