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Description

Hides mouse pointer while not in use.

xbanish hides the mouse cursor when you start typing, and shows it again when the mouse cursor moves or a mouse button is pressed. This is similar to xterm's pointerMode setting, but xbanish works globally in the X11 session.

unclutter's -keystroke mode is supposed to do this, but it's broken[0]. I looked into fixing it, but the unclutter source code is terrible, so I wrote xbanish.

The name comes from ratpoison's "banish" command that sends the cursor to the corner of the screen.

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Version

1.8

Maintainers (1)

Executables (1)

  • bin/xbanish

Platforms (21)

    Linux
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  • aarch64-linux
  • armv5tel-linux
  • armv6l-linux
  • armv7a-linux
  • armv7l-linux
  • i686-linux
  • loongarch64-linux
  • m68k-linux
  • microblaze-linux
  • microblazeel-linux
  • mips-linux
  • mips64-linux
  • mips64el-linux
  • mipsel-linux
  • powerpc64-linux
  • powerpc64le-linux
  • riscv32-linux
  • riscv64-linux
  • s390-linux
  • s390x-linux
  • x86_64-linux