Hiding the X cursor?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:46:56PM +0200, Thomas Jaeger wrote:
> Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Tyler McClung wrote:
> >> Is there a way to hide the cursor on the fly without restarting the  
> >> server or window manager?
> >>
> > shouldn't XFixesHideCursor and XFixesShowCursor do the job? 
> > (disclaimer: haven't actually used it)
> 
> On master, they sort of work, but once you've used them, animated
> cursors are no longer shown.

found three broken cases, possibly linked to the same cause - whatever that
is. Any help debugging is appreciated, test brograms in bug below.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23034

Cheers,
  Peter