diff --git a/screen.js b/screen.js
index 41e23ff41a3c7e9bbf15319fc3b0435daf024513..d7cf7d3d6ee65e6c7963781e2c218965599b8dc8 100644
--- a/screen.js
+++ b/screen.js
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ var last
 //
 // initialization
 //
-spawnSync('maim',['--showcursor','out.jpg'])
+spawnSync('maim',['out.jpg'])
 img = fs.readFileSync('out.jpg','binary')
 var requests = [null]
 //
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ update()
 //
 function update() {
    if (requests[0] == null) {
-      const ps = spawn('maim',['--showcursor','out.jpg'])
+      const ps = spawn('maim',['out.jpg'])
       ps.on('close',function(code){
          fs.readFile('out.jpg','binary',function(err,data){
             var changed = false