Remove mouse pointer

[brezlord]

Is there a way to remove the mouse pointer that appears as a circle?

You can remove the system one with the below trick but this does not remove the pointer from the electron app.

sudo mv /usr/share/icons/PiXflat/cursors/left_ptr /usr/share/icons/PiXflat/cursors/left_ptr.bak

Restart Wayfire to see the Change. The Mousecursor is gone.

It simply renames the Cursor-Graphic and it becomes invisible if the System can't find it.

To enable it again:

sudo mv /usr/share/icons/PiXflat/cursors/left_ptr.bak /usr/share/icons/PiXflat/cursors/left_ptr

Restart Wayfire to see it again.

[leukipp]

The cursor (gray circle) inside TouchKio is rendered directly by electron when Emulation.setEmitTouchEventsForMouse is used, which is necessary to simulate a touch device properly. I don't know if there is a way to disable/hide it.

However, labwc support to globally hide the cursor on touch devices by default (see labwc/labwc#2273) is coming with release v0.8.2.
I'm waiting for this version to be pushed to the RPi repository and then check how the app will handle it.

[brezlord]

Nice, can't wait to see if this new version will allow the pointer to be hidden.

[jsuanet]

I built the v0.8.2 version locally and can confirm the pointer (or actually the 'circle') is gone after the first touch event.

[brezlord]

Love your work.

[schuhbacca]

Don't want to push but is there an ETA on this? Just discovered this project and am using for a picture frame. Everything works great except for the mouse pointer thing. Thanks for the project!

[jsuanet]

It's all depending of the "adoption" of the labwc v0.8.2 version in the official RaspOS release, for an ETA you better ask that question in the official Raspberry PI forum https://forums.raspberrypi.com/

When you are in a hurry you can always build this version yourself. See https://github.com/labwc/labwc/wiki#debian

[schuhbacca]

Got it! Thanks for the info!