Atomic KMS API lacks the ability to set cursor hot-spot coordinates

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 09:57:48 UTC 2020


On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:38:48 +0000
Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > 1) Letting the VM-viewer window-system draw the cursor as it normally
> > would draw it.  
> 
> Why is this important? Can't the VM viewer hide the cursor and use a
> sub-surface to manually draw the cursor plane configured by the guest?
> 
> This would also allow the compositor running inside the VM to correctly
> have control over the cursor position, which is necessary for pointer
> constraints.

Aren't pointer motion events delivered in absolute and not relative
coordinates in the "seamless mode"?

Do we do pointer constraints also with absolute motion?


Thanks,
pq
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