Re: making mouse cursor disappear

[Jan Djärv]

Werner LEMBERG skrev:
> Using konsole on KDE, I see the mouse cursor disappear after a few
> seconds while the cursor stays in the konsole's window and isn't
> moved.  Is something similar available within Emacs?  I've searched
> for the word `disappear' but got nothing.
>
> It might be a useful addition to the `mouse-avoidance-mode' IMHO --
> and no, I can't code this myself due to lack of time :-)

I don't think you can do this now from the Lisp level.  In C you create a 
cursor with a 1x1 pixel bitmap with the mask set to 0 (see 
XCreatePixmapCursor) and then install that cursor in the window in question. 
Then you also have to restore the old cursor when the mouse moves.

        Jan D.