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unclutter is a program which runs permanently in the background of an X11
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session. It checks on the X11 pointer (cursor) position every few seconds, and
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when it finds it has not moved (and no buttons are pressed on the mouse, and
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the cursor is not in the root window) it creates a small sub-window as a child
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of the window the cursor is in. The new window installs a cursor of size 1x1
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but a mask of all 0, ie an invisible cursor. This allows you to see all the
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text in an xterm or xedit, for example. The human factors crowd would agree it
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should make things less distracting.
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Once created, the program waits for the pointer to leave the window and then
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destroys it, restoring the original situation. Button events are passed
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transparently through to the parent window. They will usually cause the cursor
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to reappear because an active grab will be made by the program while the button
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is down, so the pointer will apparently leave the window, even though its x-y
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position doesn't change.
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