How do you hide the mouse pointer under Linux/X11?

Question

How do I hide the mouse pointer under X11? I would like to use the built in libraries in order to do this and not something like SDL (SDL_ShowCursor(0)) or glut (glutSetCur

Answer 1

There is a -no-cursor option for Xorg 1.7 and later. https://www.x.org/wiki/AdvancedTopicsFAQ/

xinit -- -nocursor or startx -- -nocursor could work.