1unclutter is a program which runs permanently in the background of an X11 2session. It checks on the X11 pointer (cursor) position every few 3seconds, and when it finds it has not moved (and no buttons 4are pressed on the mouse, and the cursor is not in the root window) 5it creates a small sub-window as a child of the window the cursor is in. 6The new window installs a cursor of size 1x1 but a mask of 7all 0, ie an invisible cursor. This allows you to see all the text in 8an xterm or xedit, for example. The human factors crowd would agree it 9should make things less distracting. 10 11Once created, the program waits for the pointer to leave the window 12and then destroys it, restoring the original situation. 13Button events are passed transparently through to the parent window. 14They will usually cause the cursor to reappear because an active grab 15will be made by the program while the button is down, so the pointer 16will apparently leave the window, even though its x y position doesnt change. 17 18The first version of this program used a grab to remove the cursor. 19This method is still available with a "-grab" option to the program. 20 21Thanks for their help with "remote debugging" with xscope of various servers to 22 dave edsall@iastate.edu 23 Roland McGrath <roland@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> 24 Rainer Sinkwitz <sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch> 25 Michael L. Brown astroatc!ftms!brown@cs.wisc.edu 26 patti@hosehead.hf.intel.com 27 28and, for vroot.h, Andreas Stolcke <stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>, and, for 29finding and fixing the bug where server button grabs render unclutter 30mute, Charles Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu> and to all those who tested 31various development versions sent by mail. 32 33The program is released into the public domain. Only the considerate 34will leave credit for the author. 35 36 Mark M Martin. mmm@cetia.fr sep 1992. 37