NAME¶
unclutter-xfixes - rewrite of unclutter using the X11-Xfixes
extension
SYNOPSIS¶
unclutter [--timeout seconds] [--jitter
radius] [--exclude-root] [--ignore-scrolling]
[--fork|-b] [--help|-h]
[--version|-v]
Compatibility arguments:
unclutter [--display|-d display]
[--idle seconds] [--keystroke] [--grab]
[--noevents] [--reset] [--root] [--onescreen]
[--not] name …
OPTIONS¶
--timeout seconds
Specifies the number of seconds after which the cursor
should be hidden if it was neither moved nor any button was pressed. (Default:
5)
--jitter radius
Ignore cursor movements if the cursor hasn’t moved
sufficiently far.
--exclude-root
Don’t hide the mouse cursor if it is idling over
the root window and not an actual window since in this case it isn’t
obscuring anything important, but rather just the desktop background.
--ignore-scrolling
Ignore mouse scroll events (buttons 4 and 5) so that
scrolling doesn’t unhide the cursor.
--fork|-b
Fork unclutter to the background.
--help|-h
Display the usage and exit.
--version|-v
Display the version and exit.
COMPATIBILITY¶
In order to be used as a drop-in replacement of unclutter,
unclutter-xfixes accepts all command line arguments of unclutter, but
ignores most of them.
--display|-d display
Specifies the X display to use. The same effect can be
achieved by setting the DISPLAY environment variable.
--idle seconds
This argument is mapped to --timeout.
--keystroke
This argument is ignored.
--grab
This argument is ignored.
--noevents
This argument is ignored.
--reset
This argument is ignored.
--root
This argument does the opposite of --exclude-root.
Shouldn’t need to be given, as this is the default behavior in
unclutter-xfixes.
--onescreen
This argument restricts unclutter to the single screen
specified in --display or to the default screen of the display.
--not
This argument will result in all arguments that
aren’t options or option arguments, to be collected into a list that
specifies windows where the cursor shall not be removed. These will be the
windows where an element of the list matches, in a case insensitive
comparison, the starting characters of either the WM_NAME, or the name or
class of the WM_CLASS, properties of the window. (Note that this argument can
be given anywhere on the command line.)
DESCRIPTION¶
Hide the mouse cursor if it isn’t being used.
This version of unclutter is a rewrite of the original and uses
the x11-xfixes extension, which means that no fake windows or pointer
grabbing is needed. This should work better with window managers and
applications.
