I'm setting up a dashboard computer using a Raspberry Pi 5 installed with Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit (Debian 12 Bookworm).
So far I've gotten it up and running with starting Chromium in fullscreen, kiosk mode with my dashboard on it, which works great.
However, I simply can't figure out how to hide the cursor that shows up in the middle of the screen by default. Most commonly, unclutter
is recommended but no matter where I put unclutter -idle 0
, it doesn't seem to have any effect. Even running it directly from the command line on the Pi via a terminal opened after booting to the desktop, does nothing. It's the same behavior no matter if my autostart of Chromium is there or not.
I've also tried adding xserver-command = X -nocursor
to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
as suggested here but that has no effect either.
The ideal scenario is to only have the cursor hidden on inactivity but I'd greatly appreciate any pointers in the right direction.