Simon, Sorry about that. I completely overlooked your first comment regarding emailing the Xorg mailing list. I'll take a look at the Xfixes Hidecursor code. I'm hoping I can do something that is global within X for all my windows. Other people have recommended using "unclutter" but that has a number of undesirable attributes, such as when a button is depressed, the cursor is visible and depending on how fast you want it to remove the cursor after inactivity, it starts to each more and more CPU cycles polling. Regards, Chris <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Simon Farnsworth <<a href="mailto:simon.farnsworth@onelan.co.uk">simon.farnsworth@onelan.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Friday 9 July 2010, Chris Healy <<a href="mailto:cphealy@gmail.com">cphealy@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Simon, > > I saw your name as being the author for this change so I thought I would go > straight to you with my question. > </div>Please don't omit a relevant mailing list when doing this - by all means CC me in, but I don't always have time to answer questions, and including the mailing list helps you get a timely answer. <div class="im"> > I have an embedded touchscreen device that should normally not have the > cursor visible, thus I want to use the -nocursor option, but for debugging > purposes, I need to be able to plug a mouse in and have a visible cursor. > (Because this is for debugging purposes, restarting the X Server is not an > option.) > > Is there a way to make the cursor visible again without restarting the X > Server? </div>This is very deliberately not possible with the -nocursor option - it aims to ensure that the cursor cannot be displayed no matter how hard X applications try. You want to look at the XFixes extension - the -nocursor option simply alters the cursor behaviour to act as if a HideCursor request is in force for all possible windows. -- Simon Farnsworth Software Engineer ONELAN Limited <a href="http://www.onelan.com/" target="_blank">http://www.onelan.com/</a> </blockquote></div>