stop the idle cursor from disappearing in kde4

[Duncan]

genericmaillists posted on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:42:47 -0400 as excerpted:

> Can this be done? I have have looked through the configuration tools. I
> have searched with Google and found nothing. Is there a way to turn of
> the disappearing cursor in KDE4? I hate it! I like having the cursor
> visible.Can this be done? I have have looked through the configuration
> tools. I have searched with Google and found nothing. Is there a way to
> turn of the disappearing cursor in KDE4? I hate it! I like having the
> cursor visible.

Are you talking about the text cursor, in konsole, perhaps, or kwrite or 
whatever, or the mouse pointer?

There's configuration for the text cursor in the various apps, konsole 
has blink/no-blink and line/block but I don't see a setting for 
disappearing (which it doesn't do here).  Similarly with the mouse 
pointer.  There's various config for it but I don't see a setting for 
disappear or not.  It does seem to disappear in text apps when I start 
typing.  Maybe someone else knows something.

Do note that there *IS* a mouse-locater effect, available under all-
effects in the desktop effects settings applet, but unfortunately, it 
/does/ require OpenGL, which isn't possible on some desktops, 
particularly with older cards and/or higher resolution displays.  I can 
force OpenGL here, but I have to turn off the checks to do so since it's 
only on the top 2048 px of the display (I run dual 1920x1200 stacked for 
1920x2400, the Radeon r2xx series cards only handle OpenGL within 2k 
square) due to my old graphics hardware, and it's buggy/crashy when on, 
so I only turned it on long enough to see what effects like the mouse-
locator effect looked like, then back off.  It's pretty if it works...  

Of course, that's not going to help the disappearing pointer, but it'll 
help you find it again when it disappears.  But I can see how the 
disappearing pointer could bug people, too.  I'd suggest checking for a 
bug and adding your vote to it if there, else creating a bug, requesting 
that the feature be exposed as a toggleable option.

-- 
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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