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