[OE-core] [PATCH] xserver-nodm-init: option to remove cursor

[Trevor Woerner]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
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> On 27 March 2017 at 16:10, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> What I want is to get rid of the mouse pointer completely. Formfactor has
>> variables that would appear to affect things like rotation and whether or
>> not
>> the calibration routine gets called when X starts up. I don't see anything
>> in
>> there that can disable the showing of the pointer.
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> The touchscreen variable results in the X startup scripts hiding the cursor.

Oh, I see what you're saying... on *SATO*. Agreed. On _sato_ setting
HAVE_TOUCHSCREEN set to 1 hides the cursor:
meta/recipes-sato/machbox-session-sato/session

But what about on plain ol' core-image-x11? Although I wasn't aware of
formfactor before, using it now it still doesn't solve the issue for
me. The existing mechanism tweaks the pointer at the window manager
level, my proposed patch tweaks the pointer at the X server level
which (I'm arguing) is a better place to adjust it. This way it's
independent of everything (except which display server you're using).