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Make the mouse disappear in some apps
Authored by: ocdinsomniac on Jul 13, '06 10:39:17AM

Any program that accepts text input will hide the cursor as soon as you start typing. There is no magic key-combo for this, and certainly no reason to press both shift keys and the spacebar. In fact, doing so has the same effect as if you'd typed any other key on the keyboard. A "space" is typed and the mouse cursor disappears. Typing an arrow key works better and doesn't type an actual character. But I'm not really sure this "hint" is accurate, and at best simply describes behavior that's been around in the OS for quite some time.



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Make the mouse disappear in some apps
Authored by: Phosphor on Jul 13, '06 02:49:02PM

Good point, ocdin*.

I never paid attention to this much.

Just typing a comma, or a period, or whatever makes the cursor disappear.



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Make the mouse disappear in some apps
Authored by: dan55304 on Jul 14, '06 05:47:26AM

Cursor does not disappear for me on 10.4.7 and Safari when I type characters reading this hint. It does disappear with the arrow keys or the shift-spacebar as mentioned. Spacebar alone scrolls the screen down. Characters do nothing.



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