SUMMARY It would be nice with the Hide Cursor desktop effect to be able to disable the hide on inactivity and instead only hide when typing STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Enable the Hide Cursor desktop effect OBSERVED RESULT You can set the inactivity duration to 99 seconds but there is no way to disable it EXPECTED RESULT Disable the inactivity duration SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0 Qt Version: 6.7.0
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/5961
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/5997
Git commit 4c8544c44ffed5131cb611793c64f3605b913b74 by Vlad Zahorodnii. Committed on 26/06/2024 at 19:02. Pushed by vladz into branch 'master'. plugins/hidecursor: Allow disabling hiding cursor on inactivity M +38 -0 src/plugins/hidecursor/hidecursor_config.cpp M +18 -0 src/plugins/hidecursor/hidecursor_config.h M +12 -11 src/plugins/hidecursor/hidecursor_config.ui https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/4c8544c44ffed5131cb611793c64f3605b913b74
Git commit 585dd069f711f324164279bd2f0e864843cafe4c by Vlad Zahorodnii. Committed on 26/06/2024 at 19:02. Pushed by vladz into branch 'master'. plugins/hidecursor: Change the defaults It's more likely that this plugin will be enabled because of hiding cursor when typing so let's use that by default. M +2 -2 src/plugins/hidecursor/hidecursorconfig.kcfg https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/585dd069f711f324164279bd2f0e864843cafe4c