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pmatos
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:23 pm    Post subject: Block mouse movement Reply with quote

Hi all,

I have E0.16.7.1 and sometimes I'm just looking at my monitor, reading some pdf and I don't want the mouse pointer to be moving. However, I just sometimes move the mouse to the edge of the monitor and it changes desktop. I want to have that behaviour and I want to have multiple desktops but I'd like to have a way to block mouse movement (key combo). Does anybody know how to do this?

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure if it´s what your looking for, but what about:

Code:
x11-misc/unclutter
      Latest version available: 8
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
      Homepage:    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/unclutter-8.README
      Description: Hides mouse pointer while not in use.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

Thanks. It' d be something like that but I would like to block mouse movement. Something like the following. I move the mouse and it moves. Then I press e.g. CTRL-ALT-m and it blocks the mouse movement so that even if I move the mouse the pointer is still. then after CTRL-ALT-m the mouse behaviour comes back to normal.

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

Xk2c wrote:
Not sure if it´s what your looking for, but what about:

Code:
x11-misc/unclutter
      Latest version available: 8
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
      Homepage:    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/unclutter-8.README
      Description: Hides mouse pointer while not in use.

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