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What is the purpose of xeyes?
xeyes is not for fun, at least not only. The purpose of this program is to let you follow the mouse pointer which is sometimes hard to see. It is very useful on multi-headed computers, where monitors ...
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How is cursor blinking implemented in GUI terminal emulators?
Your question mixes up two concepts: blinking cursor and blinking text.
GNOME Terminal (VTE) had supported blinking cursor for a very long time, and I added blinking text support 5 years ago. Let me ...
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How is cursor blinking implemented in GUI terminal emulators?
I've strace'd gnome-terminal-server, which is the actual process of GNOME Terminal.
When otherwise idle, just blinking the cursor, it resides in a poll(..., 598) or similar kernel call, i.e. a poll() ...
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Large cursor XFCE
On Xfce4, after I had used a 4K display, my mouse cursor size was also too large. I just went to "Settings -> Mouse and Touchpad -> Theme", Cursor Size said 16 with down arrow disabled....
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Cursor disappears when running `top -n1 | head`
Best way IMHO is to make top use "batch" mode (-b flag) which is intended to be used with non-interactive use cases such as piping to another program or to a file.
So, this
top -n1 -b | head
won't ...
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Arch Linux KDE: How do I get the mouse pointer / cursor to highlight?
I use KDE version 5.6 and in order for mouse tracking to work I actually need to do the following:
Go to the System settings.
search "Track mouse", it should be in the "Desktop effects&...
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What is the purpose of xeyes?
Currently xeyes is also useful to work out which Linux apps use Wayland or XWayland. Hovering mouse over an XWayland window moves eyes, while native Wayland windows can not communicate with with X11 ...
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What is the purpose of xeyes?
xeyes is not only fun it is a useful utility if you have a big screen and a small cursor. Second, it is an example program for the x toolkit intrinsics (Xt) library. XEyes implements an Xt Widget (...
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What is the purpose of xeyes?
xeyes is a good way to verify if you have X11 setup across remote systems. I use it to verify the graphical tunnel is up before launching VisualVM.
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How do I change cursor on Fedora
Check what cursors are already installed by going to "Tweaks" app > Appearance > Cursor. If you don't have this app, install it:
dnf install gnome-tweak-tool
In my case, the only available cursor ...
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Highlight mouse for screencasts without disturbing workflow
For me none of the solution were satisfactory. One reason is that I want to use vlc screen cast and on GNU/Linux it does not show the mouse pointer at all. What works very well for me is: highlight-...
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Highlight mouse for screencasts without disturbing workflow
Edit 2021-05-04: I believe the recently added solution by @johannes-titz (highlight-pointer) is superior as it doesn't use a cursor theme. I'll leave the rest of my post as is, since it may still be ...
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"Shake to locate cursor" feature
You can do this on any Gnome based distro using dconf (part of GNOME, replacement for GConf) on org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse, parameter locate-pointer.
CLI way
gsettings set org.gnome....
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How to disable my touch screen
find you touchscreen id:
$xinput list
list it's properties
$xinput list-props id
disable it by it's Name (as id's change with hid devices being plugged in & out), property & setting
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How to open a file in VIM and move cursor to the search result
You can position the cursor on the first match using the -s (script) option. According to the vim manual:
-s {scriptin}
The script file {scriptin} is read. The characters in the file are ...
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Cursor disappears when running `top -n1 | head`
I wasn't able to recreate this behavior everywhere, but it does show up on Ubuntu 18.04
It is instructive to examine hex dumps of the top output:
$ top -n1 | head -n1 | xxd
00000000: 1b5b 3f31 681b ...
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Restore cursor position after having saved it
Am I missing something, i.e. can you reproduce this?!
I can, if I'm at the bottom of the terminal and the next line makes the content move up. But repeat the test in a terminal that doesn't scroll in ...
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Bigger X11 Cursors suitable for 4k screens
Although the recipe provided by dirkt does work,
the resulting scaled bitmap cursors look ugly.
There is a way to make X use the Type 1 cursor font instead, rescaling it appropriately.
The default X ...
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Hide cursor when entering text
There is program called unclutter which hides mouse pointer while not in use.
To install it on fedora (if haven't already):
dnf install unclutter
And then start it with -idle option to set number of ...
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"Shake to locate cursor" feature
In Linux Mint (18.1) you can go to Preferences > Mouse and, under Locate Pointer you can check a box that will tell the system to "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed".
I'm not ...
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How to have consistent cursor size on HiDPI?
To have GTK 3 programs have a consistent cursor size with X, set gtk-cursor-theme-size=n for n as in Xcursor.size. The setting can be found in .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
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Convert Xcursor to PNG
Use xcur2png.
Xcur2png takes PNG images from Xcursor-file, and generate config-file
which is reusable by xcursorgen. To put it simply, it is converter
from X cursor to PNG image.
Basic usage
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Block cursor for Eclipse
Short answer: no
Long:
From comments, OP clarified that the question was about Eclipse. The clue that the question was about the application's cursor (displayed as a part of the graphics within the ...
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"Shake to locate cursor" feature
There is also an excellent shake to find cursor package at the following github project: https://github.com/jeffchannell/jiggle
It took me a moment to find out how to install it though, so here it is ...
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I like the default "X" shaped crosshair cursor in linux. How do I force Debian to use that big X instead of a regular mouse cursor?
In X, the cursor is set on a window-by-window basis. You can use xsetroot to change the cursor on the root window (the background), but each application can override this. I'm not sure which cursor ...
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How can KDE Konsole be prevented from trapping the Ctrl/Alt/Shift + Cursor keys?
This can partly be done in the Settings->Configure Shortcuts menu in Konsole.
As can be seen from the image the Shift Right key was for navigating to the next tab, and it has been disabled.
The ...
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How can I get a blinking cursor in KDE Konsole?
It's a konsole setting: Settings → Edit Current Profile… → Advanced, checkbox "Blinking cursor". I had to exit and restart konsole before it took effect here.
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How to hide text cursor without shell?
In terminfo, that's the civis capability:
cursor_invisible civis vi make cursor invisi-
ble
e.g.,
tput civis
but while ...
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Arch Linux KDE: How do I get the mouse pointer / cursor to highlight?
The default configuration on Arch/KDE5 is Ctrl+Meta keys PLUS moving the mouse cursor.
This may appear somewhat unintuitive, particularly for users coming from other GUIs (like Ubuntu 16 with Gnome) ...
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