Although I am using Linux on all of my machines, I am using MS Windows quiet a bit when helping friends, etc. The other day I noticed that there are two features in MS Windows that I like, but haven't found a way to replicate this in Linux.

1) Auto Hide Mouse Pointer
In MS Windows the mouse pointer disappears when you type in text and re-appears as soon as you start moving the mouse. This comes in handy when e.g., you click on a text input field on a web page and then start typing in - no mouse pointer in your way. Is there a way I can teach my Linux systems to do something like this?

2) Really Full Screen Mode in IE
MS IE auto-hides all toolbars when in full-screen mode thus surrendering the entire real estate of the screen to the web page. Firefox does not auto-hide the menu/address toolbar. Does anybody know a way how Firefox can auto-hide ALL toolbars in full-screen mode?

best,
Werner

1) There's a small program called unclutter that does just what you want. I use it myself and it's great.

2) I never used fullscreen myself, but I know there's at least one Firefox extension somewhere that does it, as well as other useful extensions for fullscreen more convenient. I can't remember what they're called offhand though. Search the Firefox extension sites.

2) If you are using KDE, Konqueror does this quite well. I don't know about firefox, I haven't used it much under Linux. Also, are you talking about Firefox 1.5 or Firefox 2.0?

F11 for fullscreen, FireFox 2.0 for sure, I don't know about the other ones.

Yes, F11 in FF 1.5x also.

But that wasn't his request. We all know FF has a fullscreen function, but it doesn't really do FULLscreen. It still leaves the some stuff visible. You need to get an extension to hide that.

Here are two options:


Full Fullscreen

Autohide

Note that I haven't tried either of these, so I don't know how they work. This is the result of about 90 seconds of google searching.