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D.dave

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Registered: 2019-12-06

Posts: 91

How to disable the option "Hide cursor when typing"?

Finally (on Manjaro) I received Xfce 4.20, however there is a thing that I can't found.
Read this page: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-sett … ngs-4.19.0
Is reported: "add check box for libinput disable while typing", and I want, since months, disable the option that hide the mouse's cursor while typing. But I don't see this option. Where I have to look? Can I achieve this from Terminal?

If in Terminal I execute

sudo libinput list-devices

I can see the properties of my mouse: Logitech MX Anywhere 2S; and there is the option

Disable-w-typing

but is set to n/a.
And when I execute

xinput list-props 10

(the id of my mouse) there is not nothing about "hide when typing".

To be clear: I don't want that the mouse's cursor is hidden when I type.

Last edited by D.dave (2025-02-05 07:31:57)

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OS: Manjaro x86_64
DE: Xfce 4.20

him610

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From: Pennsylvania USA

Registered: 2022-02-19

Posts: 26

Re: How to disable the option "Hide cursor when typing"?

Instead of looking at mouse behavior, consider adding the desired behavior as a Keyboard application shortcut. I have not tested this, but it looks like it might work.

Added:
Terminal Preferences ->Advanced has a setting for Auto-Hide Mouse Pointer

Last edited by him610 (2025-02-06 01:06:57)

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D.dave

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Registered: 2019-12-06

Posts: 91

Re: How to disable the option "Hide cursor when typing"?

Instead of looking at mouse behavior, consider adding the desired behavior as a Keyboard application shortcut. I have not tested this, but it looks like it might work.]

Can you be more precise? What I have to look and where?

Added:
Terminal Preferences ->Advanced has a setting for Auto-Hide Mouse Pointer

Thank you for the suggestion (and is alreayd set to FALSE) but this works only for the Terminal; the mouse's cursor is also hidden in every place: in Thunar, in Firefox, in Gedit. Strangely, is not hidden in Sublime Text, maybe because it don't rely on GTK, so is definitely a GTK thing.

EDIT: I also checked with xinput list-props 9 (the id of my Keyboard Logitech K400 Plus), but still, there is nothig about disabling hide when type.

Last edited by D.dave (2025-02-06 08:28:12)

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OS: Manjaro x86_64
DE: Xfce 4.20