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Hide mouse cursor when mouse is not plugged in

I apologize, I have seen other posts about setting to hide mouse cursor but this post might be different?
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If this post gets closed, maybe this will at least bring some attention to the topic, the post mentioned above was from 12 years ago.

XFCE by default shows mouse cursor even if there is no mouse plugged in.
When no mouse is present, it is programmed to show the mouse cursor directly in middle of screen.
Not sure if anyone agrees but to me it seems that if no mouse is detected, then the mouse cursor should not be visible.
Currently this requires extra 3rd party software to achieve this which is not ideal.

Suggesting that....
-At startup if there is no mouse detected to not show mouse cursor at all.
-When XFCE is running and mouse is plugged in that the cursor be visible, but while XFCE is running, if user unplugs their mouse, then XFCE would detect that no mouse is connected and the cursor becomes no longer visible.

Thank You

Edited by advice