NAME

       unclutter-xfixes - rewrite of unclutter using the X11-Xfixes extension

SYNOPSIS

       unclutter [--timeout seconds] [--jitter radius] [--exclude-root] [--ignore-scrolling]
       [--fork|-b] [--help|-h] [--version|-v]

       Compatibility arguments:

       unclutter [--display|-d display] [--idle seconds] [--keystroke] [--grab] [--noevents]
       [--reset] [--root] [--onescreen] [--not] name …

OPTIONS

       --timeout seconds
           Specifies the number of seconds after which the cursor should be hidden if it was
           neither moved nor any button was pressed. (Default: 5)

       --jitter radius
           Ignore cursor movements if the cursor hasn’t moved sufficiently far.

       --exclude-root
           Don’t hide the mouse cursor if it is idling over the root window and not an actual
           window since in this case it isn’t obscuring anything important, but rather just the
           desktop background.

       --ignore-scrolling
           Ignore mouse scroll events (buttons 4 and 5) so that scrolling doesn’t unhide the
           cursor.

       --fork|-b
           Fork unclutter to the background.

       --help|-h
           Display the usage and exit.

       --version|-v
           Display the version and exit.

COMPATIBILITY

       In order to be used as a drop-in replacement of unclutter, unclutter-xfixes accepts all
       command line arguments of unclutter, but ignores most of them.

       --display|-d display
           Specifies the X display to use. The same effect can be achieved by setting the DISPLAY
           environment variable.

       --idle seconds
           This argument is mapped to --timeout.

       --keystroke
           This argument is ignored.

       --grab
           This argument is ignored.

       --noevents
           This argument is ignored.

       --reset
           This argument is ignored.

       --root
           This argument does the opposite of --exclude-root. Shouldn’t need to be given, as this
           is the default behavior in unclutter-xfixes.

       --onescreen
           This argument restricts unclutter to the single screen specified in --display or to
           the default screen of the display.

       --not
           This argument will result in all arguments that aren’t options or option arguments, to
           be collected into a list that specifies windows where the cursor shall not be removed.
           These will be the windows where an element of the list matches, in a case insensitive
           comparison, the starting characters of either the WM_NAME, or the name or class of the
           WM_CLASS, properties of the window. (Note that this argument can be given anywhere on
           the command line.)

DESCRIPTION

       Hide the mouse cursor if it isn’t being used.

       This version of unclutter is a rewrite of the original and uses the x11-xfixes extension,
       which means that no fake windows or pointer grabbing is needed. This should work better
       with window managers and applications.

AUTHOR

       Ingo Bürk

                                            2019-10-30                        UNCLUTTER-XFIXES(1)