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Windows has a "Hide pointer while typing" setting buried deep in its system settings, but it only works in applications that check the setting. The only Windows apps I've found that honor the setting are Notepad and WordPad. macOS hides the mouse pointer by default for all applications.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/101591-turn-off-hide-pointer-while-typing-windows.html

As someone who spends most of my workdays editing Google Docs and spreadsheets in Firefox, hiding the mouse pointer would be very nice. When I click to set focus in a doc and start typing, the cursor and text are obscured by the mouse pointer (because that's where I just clicked focus).

The setting can be accessed via `SystemParametersInfo`, specifically `SPI_GETMOUSEVANISH`:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-systemparametersinfow 

The "Hide pointer while typing" setting is disabled by default, probably to avoid breaking backwards compatibility with some applications. Maybe we could implement the mouse pointer hiding, regardless of the "Hide pointer while typing" setting (since so few users will know about it).
Windows has a "Hide pointer while typing" setting buried deep in its system settings, but it only works in applications that check the setting. The only Windows apps I've found that honor the setting are Notepad and WordPad. macOS hides the mouse pointer by default for all applications.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/101591-turn-off-hide-pointer-while-typing-windows.html

As someone who spends most of my workdays editing Google Docs and spreadsheets in Firefox, hiding the mouse pointer would be very nice. When I click to set focus in a doc and start typing, the cursor and text are obscured by the mouse pointer (because that's where I just clicked focus).

The setting can be accessed via `SystemParametersInfo`, specifically `SPI_GETMOUSEVANISH`:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-systemparametersinfow 

I don't know if "Hide pointer while typing" setting is enabled by default. The setting probably exists for disable pointer hiding for backwards compatibility with some applications. Maybe we could implement the mouse pointer hiding, regardless of the "Hide pointer while typing" setting (since so few users will know about it).

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