From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 23 00:45:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA02151 for current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 00:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA02123; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 00:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609230745.AAA02123@freefall.freebsd.org> To: sos@FreeBSD.org cc: ache@nagual.ru, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Default mousepointer position In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:16:09 +0200." <199609230716.JAA24029@ra.dkuug.dk> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 00:45:06 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> How about having the pointer go away after a 30 second timeout? As >> soon as you move the mouse, it comes back? Word uses this trick >> so that the mouse is never in your way while you type. > >Splendid idea, thats the way I want to do it ! Come to think of it, you may even want to hide it on the keystroke after it was last used. I'm sure that a little experimentation will provide a good default behavior and perhaps some additional moused options to tweak the behavior. >Hmm, there might be hope for this one, as I just found an old VLbus >MB, so I can use my old and trusty #9GXE/VL... Mine is a VL card as well. >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > So much code to hack -- so little time. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================