Hiding the Mouse Cursor

Carplay
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Hey all! Rhys and team, I really appreciate you putting in the work to make this happen!

I’m running React CarPlay on a raspberry Pi 5 using raspberry pi os bookworm. Everything works great, but I’d love the option to hide the mouse cursor while running CarPlay. Has anyone come up with a solution to allow this to happen?

I have tried fixes like unclutter, which crashes my GUI and isn’t very compatible with Wayland. There isn’t a transparent cursor available using the raspberry pi Debian GUI. Is there something maybe specific to the app I can try instead?

Thank you!

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I use X instead of Wayland and Unclutter works fine for me on a 5 running bookworm.

Instructions I followed:
i had the same problem,
it has to do something with wayland you have to switch to x11
go to the raspi- config
sudo raspi-config

Navigate the menus: 6 Advanced Options / A6 Wayland / W1 X11, activate and reboot when suggested.

then unclutter should work

Just remember to add the command to run it “unclutter -idle 0.01” to autostart in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart