Enhancement: hide on key press

[bryangeplant]

Hey, love this package! Was wondering if it'd be easy to implement a flag that hides on keyboard press.

[Airblader]

Do you mean on any keyboard input, or to configure some specific key that hides the cursor?

[Barbaross93]

I would also be interested in such a feature. Personally, I think it should be any keyboard input as the assumption is that if the user is typing, they likely don't need the mouse. Although a manual toggle would be a nice feature as well, it could technically be done with a simple shell script and a keybinding.

[Airblader]

For hiding it on any keyboard input, have you looked into using xbanish instead? Maybe that would suffice for you?

[Barbaross93]

I've been using it for a while, but unfortunately it lacks the ability to keep the cursor hidden while scrolling. There's a PR for it but it seems to not be going anywhere.

EDIT
I Just tried pinging that PR. Maybe things will get moving again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Barbaross93]

Well, looks like it was merged! The git version also has a timeout feature like unclutter @bryangeplant, you may just want to switch to it instead.

[Airblader]

Glad to see pinging moved it along. I'll wait for more feedback on whether this is still needed in unclutter.

[bryangeplant]

Oh nice! Sorry for the delay, was traveling. Thanks, I'll hop on to it!

[bryangeplant]

Do you mean on any keyboard input, or to configure some specific key that hides the cursor?

Yes I meant all