[Sderby] Disabling mouse pointer

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Dave

I have solution which is not very elegant. If you read the xFree86 stuff it
explains about configuring Xfree86 for various video cards. It describes
cirmumstances in which the mouse pointer disappears and how to make it
appear again. I suggest you do the reverse i.e. use the Xfree86 manual
settings to force the video card to suppress the mouse pointer.

Thanks

Andre

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bottrill" <david.bottrill@ntlworld.com>
To: <sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: [Sderby] Disabling mouse pointer


> Guys,
>
> I've had the idea of using an old laptop to build a digital photoframe,
connected to my server where I will store a selection of pictures for it to
show.
>
> I intent to use the comamnd line utility "Animate" that comes with the
package "ImageMagick" this will give a slide show of all the files in a
directory scaling them to fit the display as required.
>
> As I want to use the laptop guts without keyboard or mouse then I have two
issues:
>
> 1) I want the box to automatically login with a fixed username and and
password.
> 2) I need to start an X server but hide the mouse pointer, starting X is
no problem, hiding the cursor is the problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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