stop the idle cursor from disappearing in kde4

[Bogus Zaba]

genericmaillists at gmail.com wrote:
> What I am talking about is the cursor hides if I don't move the mouse 
> for several seconds and then comes right back when I do move the 
> mouse. This happens in the KDE4 desktop and the applications make no 
> difference. It happens no matter what is open or closed. That is 
> probably the reason for the locate mouse in the desktop all effects, 
> which I found. that is just as annoying as the mouse hiding.
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net 
> <mailto:1i5t5.duncan at cox.net>> wrote:
>
>     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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This sounds a bit like the mouse cursor behaves (correctly I think) in 
applications like video viewers. You con't want to see the mouse cursor 
when the video is playing, but when you want to adjust the volume or 
picture size or something you want it to come back as soon as you move 
the mouse or press a key. Could your cursor be "stuck" in that mode? 
Might be worth entering a video player and exiting nicely to see if that 
returns it to normal mode.

Bogus
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