Hide Cursor While Typing

[PopeJareth]

Description

It would be lovely if the mouse cursor could disappear when typing. This is an issue for people who require large cursor sizes.

Use case/motivation

When I start to type, the mouse/cursor image should vanish preventing me from typing until I am under my mouse and unable to see what I type. This is an issue for people who require large cursor sizes.

Related issues

No response

Are you willing to submit a pull request?

No

[mbien]

hmm. This seems to be implemented on the OS level in my case (arch/cinnamon/X11), text fields in the file explorer, terminal, firefox and other editors (tested zed and xed) seem behave that way (mouse disappears on type and reappears on motion if text fields have focus).

Java/Swing applications don't do that by default however (tried GTK Laf too). No promises but this is something we could probably implement as option. Potentially even in FlatLaf.