Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Ditto)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: kill the arrow?
Summary: So THAT'S what does it (scrset)
Keywords: unixpc mouse keyboard
Message-ID: <4399@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 03:09:39 GMT
References: <6092@chinet.chi.il.us> <298@amanue.UUCP> <747@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ford@kenobi.cts.com (Michael Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 37

In article <747@cbnews.ATT.COM> feb@cbnews.ATT.COM (Franco E. Barber) writes:
>>In article <6092@chinet.chi.il.us> dsueme@chinet.chi.il.us (dave sueme) writes:
>>>Is it possible to kill that goddamned arrow?  How?
>
>In my case, I don't even have the mouse plugged in.
>When I boot the machine up, the arrow is gone.
>However, when I use scrset to blank the screen, the arrow pops up
>when the screen unblanks.

AH HA!!! THAT'S IT!!!  I've been trying to figure out exactly what the
catalyst was that made the arrow re-appear; the screen-blank makes perfect
sense... that's why the v3.0 people never saw it, and that's why it always
seemed to be after a random interval, but never immediately after reboot,
and never when I was looking!  Ok, pardon my amazement, but I was really
starting to get curious.

>The arrow returns in the upper left corner of the screen.
>Since my mouse is unplugged, I can't move it.
>I want to remove it completely.

My solution was to add a new feature to the keyboard driver... Mouse
Control!  I can move the mouse pointer and simulate all the buttons
right from the keyboard, without having the mouse plugged in!  Other
than playing with it a bit, the only thing I ever use it for is to
put the arrow where I only see one pixel of it and leave it there.
Of course, that's all I ever did with the mouse, anyway.

I think my next hack will be to have it boot up with the pointer
down there in the first place.

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