[Xcb] Please review/comment: libxcursor port

Michael Stapelberg michael+xcb at stapelberg.de
Sun Jan 13 09:34:27 PST 2013


Hi Bastien,

Bastien Dejean <nihilhill at gmail.com> writes:
> Seems to work with the cursor theme I currently use (dmz-aa).
Cool, thanks for confirming.

> Some windows won't let their cursor be changed though (e.g.: URxvt), is
> this a known limitation?
I haven’t tested that yet, but to figure out whether it should be
possible or not, you could try the same using libXcursor…?

> I was also wondering if it might be possible to retrieve the current
> cursor for a given window in order to restore it afterwards?
Not that I know of. The cursor id isn’t included in the window
attributes apparently.

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Best regards,
Michael


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