# Making idle mouse disappear

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-idle-mouse-disappear/100406>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 29, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-idle-mouse-disappear/100406 "2004-01-29T01:04:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![scdlt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@scdlt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scdlt)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-idle-mouse-disappear/100406/1 "2004-01-29T01:04:53Z")

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Is it possible to make an idle mouse dissappear after about 2 seconds, but if it becomes active again it reapears?

I figure there is but I don’t know the functions I would need to do it.