Shadows with configurable light source for mouse cursors

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper]

I've e-mailed Keith and asked him this and hopefully I'll not offend him by 
bringing my questions to him to the list.  =:) 

My questions for the list are...  Is anyone thinking about/working on doing 
this in the X core?  It's another one of those things you take for granted on 
Windows/OS X, but find _really_ annoying when you discover them missing from 
X.

And just to be clear, I am talking about having X generate and draw shadows 
for the mouse cursor on the fly so that its users do not have to create the 
shadows in the mouse cursors themselves.  I would think that if one would be 
willing to do this, one might also consider allowing the user to specify the 
lightsource location and angle too.  

I believe that the nvidia driver does this through these settings:

            Option      "CursorShadow" "on"
            Option     "CursorShadowAlpha" "32"
            Option      "CursorShadowXOffset" "8"
            Option      "CursorShadowYOffset" "8"

Is it possible to put this in the X core directly so that other drivers can 
take advantage of this feature?

Thanks!!  =:)



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