How to hide mouse curosr in an Python/Gtk+ application?

Question

I'm writting a little application that runs on a touchscreen computer and I would like to hide the mouse cursor within this app. Do you know anyway to do that ? Thanks

What about this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6718586/pygtk-hide-cursor — barrios, Mar 13 '14 at 12:14
this is base on pygtk which is not the same as Gtk+ but thanks anyway :-) — shug, Mar 13 '14 at 12:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 13 '14 at 13:53

You want to create a GdkCursor of type GDK_BLANK_CURSOR, and set your windows GdkWindow cursor to that with gdk_window_set_cursor().

To get the GdkWindow, you need to wait until it exists (e.g. until the GtkWindow is realized), and then call gtk_widget_get_window (my_gtk_window)

How to do these calls with python depends on your Gtk+ version: 2.x indeed works through pygtk as barrios suggests (although the linked answer itself is incorrect). Gtk+ 3.x is accessed through gobject-introspection API.

How to hide mouse curosr in an Python/Gtk+ application?

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