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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A. Eibach, has unclutter improved at all on the reasons it was removed
from the default install before (described in my 2010-06-17 comment)?

I suspect that an external utility will always be too slow, Ubuntu has
so many toolkits that trying to fix it there will always be a game of
whack-a-mole, and X maintainers will balk at anything that smells like
"policy". So it may be that the only reliable way to fix this is in Mir
or Wayland.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16492

Title:
  Mouse pointer should disappear when keyboard is in use and mouse isn't

Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
  New
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Triaged
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:
  1.  Click near the top left of a text field to focus it.
  2.  Start typing.
  Or:
  1.  Click in a browser window to focus the page.
  2.  Read the page, scrolling with the arrow keys.
  Or:
  1.  Click in an e-mail message window to focus the message.
  2.  Read the message, scrolling with the arrow keys.

  What happens:
  *   The mouse pointer gets in the way of what you're typing/reading.

  What should happen:
  *   Whenever you press a non-modifier key on the keyboard, if the pointing
  device has been neither moved nor clicked in the past ~0.25 seconds, the pointer
  should disappear until the pointing device is next moved or clicked.

  But won't this make people lose the pointer?
  *   No. For human eyes, such a small object is much easier to find by movement
  than by searching the entire screen. As soon as they grab the mouse again, the
  pointer will appear, and they'll see where it is.

  This is nuts!
  *   It's worked on the Mac for over two decades. Most people haven't noticed.
  They just get slightly irritated on *other* platforms when the pointer gets in
  the way.

  (Apologies if this is filed under the wrong product.)

  http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/WWW/HISubtleties/PointerObscuring.html:
  http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/WWW/HISubtleties/PointerObscuring.html

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