Maverick: No easy way to adjust idle time in unclutter; default idle time is too short

[Doug McMahon]

Binary package hint: unclutter

I don't mind it's being enabled by default in Maverick, but the idle time of 1 (about 1.5 sec.'s) is way too short and becomes annoying.
The only apparent way is to edit is in etc/default/unclutter, which is unreasonable.

So the default idle time should be raised and a more accessible means to configure it provided

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unclutter 8-13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-6.9-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-6-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 2 02:32:27 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100624)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unclutter

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

With no indication this will be addressed in either manner (other than it probably won't be in the default install), - how to set to more reasonable value

run
gksu gedit /etc/default/unclutter

Adjust the value in the line EXTRA_OPTS="-idle 1 -root"

Each increase of 1 seems to be about 1.5 sec.'s here

Ex. unclutter

# /etc/default/unclutter - configuration file for unclutter

# Set this option to 'true' if you want to start unclutter
# automagically after X has been started for a user.
# Otherwise, set it to 'false'.
START_UNCLUTTER="true"

# Options passed to unclutter, see 'man unclutter' for details.
EXTRA_OPTS="-idle 5 -root"

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

dead & buried

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

> dead & buried

I wouldn't say so.

IMHO there is an easy way to change the default idle time of unclutter: Edit /etc/default/unclutter.

Then again, you and some more people consider this unreasonable. If you can explain a little bit more, why you consider that unreasonable or how you think that this can be done better, there may be a chance to change this.