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I use Awesome WM on Fedora 23. When I enter text in Firefox or gVim the mouse cursor stays visible. When entering text in Konsole or Dolphin, the cursor is hidden until I move it again.

The KDE behavior is much more what I want. How can I change this in GTK applications?

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There is program called unclutter which hides mouse pointer while not in use. To install it on fedora (if haven't already):

dnf install unclutter

And then start it with -idle option to set number of seconds before pointer will be hidden, e.g.:

unclutter -idle 2 &

You may want to add above line to .xinitrc or similar startup file.

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    unclutter -keystroke should do (at least partially) what OP is asking for; hide mouse while typing Commented Jan 1, 2016 at 21:45
  • @ZN13 That sounds like a system wide option and not something that hinges on the particular toolkit used. I just tested it and it does not work with Firefox for instance. The manual page has a paragraph about this limitation and I fear that this -keystroke option does not change the behavior in Firefox. The timeout might be a viable option, though. Commented Jan 1, 2016 at 22:23
  • @MartinUeding unclutter -idle 2 works for me on firefox too, just tested. However It is possible that firefox has some built-in option (accessible via about:config) to turn such mouse behavior on/off, but I'm not aware of that. Commented Jan 1, 2016 at 22:50
  • Sure, the timeout works in every case. Setting this in Firefox seems pointless as that does not help with other programs. Commented Jan 1, 2016 at 23:12
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The keystroke option in unclutter does not work well. xbanish does what you demand: no timeout, it hides the cursor when a key is pressed.

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