Request for review: unclutter

[Ralf Ertzinger]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:38:50PM +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:

> Unclutter is a program which runs permanently in the background of an X11
> session. It checks on the X11 pointer (cursor) position every few seconds, and
> when it finds it has not moved (and no buttons are pressed on the mouse, and
> the cursor is not in the root window) it creates a small sub-window as a child
> of the window the cursor is in. The new window installs a cursor of size 1x1
> but a mask of all 0, ie an invisible cursor. This allows you to see all the
> text in an xterm or xedit, for example. The human factors crowd would agree it
> should make things less distracting.

While I think this is certainly useful and salute the inclusion of this program,
I find the method employed to hide the cursor absolutely disgusting :)

On the other hand, I have fought with NX (and the included X tree) for most
of the day, so I may be a little biased.