bakkeby / xban

Hides the X mouse cursor on keypress and reveals it again when the mouse cursor moves

xban: hides the X mouse cursor on keypress

xban is a simple window manager agnostic tool that hides the X cursor when the keyboard is used and reveals it again when the mouse moves.

If additional features are desired such as:

• hiding the mouse cursor automatically after a period of inactivity
• ignoring keypresses when a modifier is used or
• moving the cursor to a specific location when the cursor is hidden

then refer to the more elaborate xbanish project which covers this: https://github.com/jcs/xbanish

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/bakkeby/xban.git
$ cd xban
$ sudo make install
$ xban

This is also available in the AUR.

Dependencies

Arch

• base-devel
• libxi
• libxfixes

sudo pacman -S base-devel libxi libxfixes

Debian

• build-essential
• libxi-dev
• libxfixes-dev

sudo apt install build-essential libxi-dev libxfixes-dev

Void

• base-devel
• libXi-devel
• libXfixes-devel

xbps-install -Su base-devel libXi-devel libXfixes-devel

Credits

The work is inspired by xbanish.

License

xban is available under an MIT license. See the LICENSE file.