There used to be a program called "xclutter"... I think it might still be around (quick google does show links). It'll hide the mouse cursor when there's no activity, so as long as you're not moving the mouse you should be fine. It messes up the mouse when you're trying to play games, though! On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Donovan Niesen wrote: > I've set up an Ubuntu box using x.org and I'm trying to hide or get > rid of the large X cursor. I just have a basic xsession starting up > VLC in full screen mode, and that damn X keeps popping up for a few > seconds every time it moves to the next item in the playlist. I've > tried removing all the lines in the xorg.conf that refer to the mouse > but no avail. Anybody have any tricks? > > -- > Donovan Niesen > dniesen at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -Yaron --