option to close find-cursor?

[dianat100]

Hello, I have created a launcher to launch the cursor whenever I want others to see my cursor on Skype. However, I don't see an easy way to close it once I am finished "pointing". I know I can kill it in the terminal, but each time I launch it, it is assigned a different ID number. How can I close the application with one click or universal command?

[Martin Tournoij]

There's no real option to do that, and it wouldn't be easy to add either as IPC is kinda hard. It wouldn't be very different from pkill find-cursor anyway, so I recommend to just use that.

You can use a little script to check if there is a find-cursor process and kill it, or start a new one in the background if there isn't:

if pgrep find-cursor; then
    pkill find-cursor
else
    find-cursor -r0 &
fi

If you map this to a key in your WM then it should work like a "toggle" key.

[dianat100]

Thank you. This works. Great script, keep it up.Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: Martin Tournoij <[e-mail]> Date: 5/26/20 2:16 PM (GMT+01:00) To: arp242/find-cursor <[e-mail]> Cc: dianat100 <[e-mail]>, Author <[e-mail]> Subject: Re: [arp242/find-cursor] option to close find-cursor? (#20) There's no real option to do that, and it wouldn't be easy to add either as IPC is kinda hard. It wouldn't be very different from pkill find-cursor anyway, so I recommend to just use that. You can use a little script to check if there is a find-cursor process and kill it, or start a new one in the background if there isn't: if pgrep find-cursor; then pkill find-cursor else find-cursor -r0 & fi If you map this to a key in your WM then it should work like a "toggle" key. —You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. [ { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "EmailMessage", "potentialAction": { "@type": "ViewAction", "target": "#20 (comment)", "url": "#20 (comment)", "name": "View Issue" }, "description": "View this Issue on GitHub", "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "GitHub", "url": "https://github.com" } } ]

[Martin Tournoij]

Cheers, I added it to the README.