[Sderby] Disabling mouse pointer

[David Bottrill]

Thanks Andre I will look into it.

David

> 
> From: <andre.hefer@avhservices.co.uk>
> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:40:10 +0100
> To: <sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Sderby] Disabling mouse pointer
> 
> 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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