Raspberry Pi OS • Re: [open] How to hide Mouse Cursor in Wayland?

Hi,

There is a nice solution without playing with cursors: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/145390/112073

But link to package seems to be down (server problem?), so quickest would be build this extra plugins by yourself.

Here quick howto:

1. git clone repo: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire-plugins-extra
2. apt install few things:

   Code:

   $ sudo apt install libglibmm-2.4-dev libglm-dev libxml2-dev libpango1.0-dev libcairo2-dev wayfire-dev libwlroots-dev libwf-config-dev meson

3. go into the cloned repo dir and run meson & ninja (without install) almost like described on that repo

   Code:

   $ meson build --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release$ ninja -C build

4. Copy 2 files, one is lib....so with plugin, and another is config for it:

   Code:

   $ sudo cp build/src/libhide-cursor.so /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/wayfire/$ sudo cp metadata/hide-cursor.xml /usr/share/wayfire/metadata/

5. Enable plugin(s) in wayfire.ini, edit file your fav text editor my is vim

   Code:

   vi ~/.config/wayfire.ini

6. check if you have section core if not then add it with option plugins, add to plugins hide-cursor, don't forget about autostart (if you need it for kiosk )

   Code:

   [core]plugins = autostart hide-cursor

7. Works, just reboot pi. if you move cursor it will show-up for 2s then hide again. There seems be some options to config it, you can either edit time in xml file or probably somehow in wayfire.ini (but I don't know)

Statistics: Posted by saper_2 — Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:08 pm

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