find-cursor
Highlight the cursor position in X11 (by arp242)
xbanish
Hide the mouse cursor when typing and show it again when the mouse moves (by jcs)
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| find-cursor | xbanish | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 4 | |
| 162 | 511 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 9 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
find-cursor
Posts with mentions or reviews of find-cursor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-05.
- Cant find breeze cursor in light themed desktop
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When Control is pressed - help to find the mouse pointer on the screen
a quick google lead me to https://github.com/arp242/find-cursor
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How to set up double control for mouse pointer location?
This is available in AUR, should work in any X11 environment.
xbanish
Posts with mentions or reviews of xbanish.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
- How Can I Hide the Mouse
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How do I get desktop icons to show up on the right side of the screen by default, and other stupid questions.
Run xbanish. It's in the repo of any Debian-based distribution.
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Mouse Cursor Does Not Hide in Some Applications When Typing
Perhaps a tool such as xbanish might help?
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Global hidden mouse pointer when typing
Fedora 32 Linux running X11 xbanish
What are some alternatives?
When comparing find-cursor and xbanish you can also consider the following projects:
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
NFSU-XtendedInput - NFS Underground & Underground 2 - XInput Plugin
warpd - A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer
FightboardHybrid - Custom firmware for the Fightboard and Fightboard MX by thnikk, supporting XInput and Nintendo Switch
i3 - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3.
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11
HidGuardian - Windows kernel-mode driver for controlling access to various input devices.
NFS-XtendedInput - NFS (Black Box, MW & newer) - XInput Plugin