Hide Cursor functions using startx or XINIT?

[retropieuser555]

Hi all,

So I've been playing around with the standalone mgba emulator to try and compile that for RetroPie (https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/issues/1081 the answer is in here btw)

But I've run into a snag, when I boot the emulator with startx or xinit, the cursor appears and I can't get rid of it unless I move the mouse away. I've tried adding -- -no cursor but it doesn't seem to work. Am I using the function correctly? This is what I'm using in my emulators.cfg file.

mgba = "XINIT:/usr/local/bin/mgba-qt -f -l 0 %ROM% -nocursor"

[SuperFromND]

@retropieuser555 Have you tried this?

mgba = "XINIT:/usr/local/bin/mgba-qt -f -l 0 %ROM% -- -nocursor"

(note the extra -- to denote passing the command to xinit and not mgba-qt)

[retropieuser555]

@superfromnd Yeah I'll double check but I think when I tried with this it wouldn't boot. But I might've made a mistake and put the -- - no cursor outside the speech marks

[retropieuser555]

@superfromnd So I tried this but the rom doesn't load, it boots to the emulator itself and I have to select the rom from the emulator GUI. It loaded the rom before without -- - nocursor. I also tried putting the %ROM% at the end but that didn't work either.

Any ideas?

[DirtBagXon]

@retropieuser555 said in Hide Cursor functions using startx or XINIT?:

@superfromnd So I tried this but the rom doesn't load, it boots to the emulator itself and I have to select the rom from the emulator GUI. It loaded the rom before without -- - nocursor. I also tried putting the %ROM% at the end but that didn't work either.

Any ideas?

Maybe not the answer you where after, but try installing unclutter and setting a timeout of 1s.