On 2003-01-20(Mon) 16:06:17 +0100, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > I can see it, too. AFAICT, it's the border of the shadow. Both parts, > the cursor itself and the shadow have their own transparency. > Therefore, the left part of the cursor (without the shadow) is more > transparent then the right part (where cursor and shadow overlay): > Hold it over some colored, plain part of the screen and you will see > what I mean - the left part lets through a fraction more of the color > than the right part. > > And the transition line between those two parts appears like a line.
Aha. However, the redglass cursor doesn't contain this artifact.... > Regarding the grandparent post: X ships with a cursor set without > shadows called handhelds (see /usr/lib/X11/icons). As has been already > mentioned several times on this list, you can change the default by > changing default/index.theme accordingly. The handheld cursor is so small, I can't recognise if it has shadow or not :) For another matter, the preferred place for changing index.theme is in ~/.icons/index.theme instead, much better than modifying system wide setting. Xcursor(3x) manpage has documented the search paths of cursors. Abel -- Abel Cheung GPG Key: (0xC67186FF) http://deaddog.org/gpg.asc
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