View Full Version : Mouse pointer intermittently appears when watching videos with mplayer
pickledfish
May 4th, 2009, 08:41 AM
Hi. I think this should be simple to fix but I can't find an answer.
The problem is that I reinstalled mplayer and now the mouse pointer appears on the screen every few minutes. It only appears for a second and disappears again. Not a major problem but annoying.
I'm assuming it's only a matter of adding something to the mplayer conf file to fix this? Any help would be much appreciated.
miau1010
November 9th, 2009, 04:41 AM
I'm having this same problem.
Stason
February 24th, 2010, 04:51 PM
Menu (or right click) ==> Video ==> Stay on top ==> While playing
This would hide the pointer, which pops up when the "disable screensaver" script moves the mouse every now and then.
papibe
June 21st, 2010, 07:52 PM
That didn't do it for me. Not even "Always on top".
Any other idea?
Regards.
wilee-nilee
June 21st, 2010, 08:00 PM
If you bump the mouse or it gets a vibration it will show.
andree_b
June 22nd, 2010, 04:23 AM
It's a bug in mplayer... installing mplayer from smplayer PPA fixed it for me in 9.10.
(mplayer moves the mousepointer randomly to disable mousepointer)
But sadly in 10.04 the mplayer internal disable-screensaver stuff did not work anymore and i had to add heartbeat-cmd stuff to mplayer.conf to keep the screensaver disabled.
papibe
June 22nd, 2010, 04:58 PM
But sadly in 10.04 the mplayer internal disable-screensaver stuff did not work anymore and i had to add heartbeat-cmd stuff to mplayer.conf to keep the screensaver disabled.
Did it work? Would you share how?
Regards.
LowSky
June 23rd, 2010, 03:20 PM
you can install unclutter
papibe
June 23rd, 2010, 11:23 PM
@ LowSky: thanks, I tried unclutter, but it didn't do the job. Since mplayer itself keeps moving the mouse, unclutter never engages. May be playing with the -jitter option could have worked.
I went andree_b's way. I unchecked the "Disable screensaver" option (smplayer), and I add this line to my ~/.mplayer/config
heartbeat-cmd="gnome-screensaver-command -p"
It's working now ):P , that is: mouse is not visible after a few seconds, and the screen saver does not start.
:rolleyes: Obs: the screen saver's idle setting has to be > 1 minute.
Regards.
andree_b
June 24th, 2010, 04:20 AM
or if you use xscreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver:
heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate &"
Without the "&" (sending command to background) i experienced small stutter everytime the command executed
jyavenard
June 24th, 2010, 10:27 PM
add the following to your xorg.conf device section:
Option "HWCursor" "false"
Or in nvidia-settings, disable the hardware mouse pointer acceleration
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