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Description

xhidecursor is a minimal X-application which hides the cursor on key-press and unhides the cursor on mouse-movement. The two main advantages compared to other popular alternatives like xbanish are:

  • Simplicity: xhidecursor ~40 SLOC vs. xbanish ~488 SLOC. This is because xhidecursor only uses the XFIXES-Extension to hide the cursor while xbanish implements many different methods.
  • Performance: If stress-tested on a i5-8350U CPU by moving the mouse erratically around htop shows a CPU-Utilization of 0% for xhidecursor and up to 1.3% for xbanish. This is because xhidecursor only listens to the first mouse-movement to unhide the cursor and ignores all the following mouse-movements. xbanish on the other hand processes every single mouse-movement even if the mouse is already visible. The same goes for key-presses.
Dependencies
  • libxi
  • libxifixes
Installation

sh make install