Kevin Brosius on Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:30:32 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Drop Shaddow Cursor w/ XFree


Did you check out the link?  I'm not aware of any XFree86 docs to dig
into yet, except what's been published on the mailing lists.

Kevin


JP Toto wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I've tried every combination of "CursorShadow" options  I can
> think of and still can't get it to turn off. The kicker was when I
> compiled 4.2.99.1 onto a different box the other day which only has a
> Viper V550 (TNT1) and the shadow still came up by default! Time to dig
> into some XFree docs I guess :-)
> 
> - JP
> 
> Kevin Brosius wrote:
> > Sounds like we're mixing two different cursor features.  "CursorShadow"
> > seems to be a driver specific option, as I've not run across it before.
> > The new XFree86 4.3.0 alpha blended cursors are not controlled from this
> > option, but from Xresources or environment variables.
> >
> > Here's a good rundown of the options:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/xfree86%40xfree86.org/msg00827.html
> >
> > I believe the Xcursor.core/XCURSOR_CORE resource should do what you
> > want, although I'm not entirely clear.  Also, the default theme has
> > changed snapshot to snapshot as the 4.3 release gets closer.  The
> > resource Xcursor.theme/XCURSOR_THEME says it uses the 'default' theme if
> > you don't set it.  However, default was 'redglass' for early snapshots.
> > I believe it was changed to 'core' in the last couple release candidate
> > snapshots.  Valid options that I know of are 'redglass', 'whiteglass'
> > and 'core' (although 'core' is probably only in RC1 and RC2, not the
> > version you have in gentoo.)
> >
> 
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