Help with new project [Solved]

[CharlesV]

Very good. And you should be able to F11 and it will come out of Kiosk mode. (Also Alt-Tab if you have any other app open will bring you to that app)

[Tovian]

Now there's another "oops" I have discovered. I have ALMOST EVERYTHING working exactly as I want. The one thing I will change if I can is this...

The Cursor

When the boot/login/autostart completes - and the beautiful radar map is displayed - the da__ed cursor is right in the middle of the map !!

[CharlesV]

Install unclutter from MX Package installer | Enabled repos tab.

This hides the mouse when no activity after X seconds.

[Tovian]

Workin on it................

[Tovian]

Works beautifully "on-demand". Do I have to do anything to make it run after every boot ?

[CharlesV]

Seems like I had to set up an auto startup in Sessions and Startup, I set it to "log in" as I recall

[Tovian]

@CharlesV - Some of the things you refer to I am unable to find. I think that may be because you did not know I am running MX-KDE.

This (unclutter) is kicking me while I'm already down. I cannot get it and Firefox autostarted and running together. I'm probably doing something wrong, but I can't make it work.

I have the PC that's running my "dedicated weather display" outputting its video to a HDMI splitter/duplicator so I can show the output (and use mouse/keyboard) on one port of my "B" group KVM while the other side of the video duplicator hooks directly to the theatre monitor. Therefore, even though it's somewhat of a bother (and doesn't satisfy my original goal for this project), I can still launch unclutter manually or simply move the mouse pointer out of the picture.

[CharlesV]

ko.. so for KDE .. you would create an entry in autostart for unclutter.

I just created in my KDE vm, and also set Firefox to start on login and they both seemed to work just fine. Not sure why a splitter would make any difference, unclutter should still work.

[Tovian]

No, the splitter has nothing to do with it - I was just saying that I had an alternative to "autostarting". I will try this tomorrow, but I think I was getting hung up somewhere in the correct commands to autostart. The only way I've made unclutter run is to start from a terminal - and that hangs - and I can't start anything else. If there's a way to break a perfectly good process/program I can usually find it.

[CharlesV]

yeah, I saw the same in a terminal, it was just running. But starting it with an autostart entry worked just fine for me. ( both xfce and kde) .

I did notice that there was an unclutter-startup in MXPI, but I have never used it.