Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mar 15/06/2004 � 16:40, ROBERTOJIMENOCA a �crit : > > > Note that you can probably work around the first by disabling the > > > hardware cursor feature, > > > > Why would someone that doesn't care about pretty cursor themes would > > like to disable the hardware cursor feature? > > I don't like hardware cursor disabled because that makes the cursor > > blink when something changes in the background (indeed, that's why > > hardware cursor was invented) > > Is it also true of alpha cursors? I think they are displayed using the > RENDER extension, not the hardware cursor mechanism.
sis, ati and nv xfree86 drivers support ARGB HW cursors > > > and that you can also disable this cursor theme > > > by using update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme. > > > > Should at least this cursor theme not be set by default? > > Sorry, but if I back out this change I'll get hanged. Many users were > asking for a nice yet neutral default cursor theme, which is exactly > what Industrial is. Why should I deprive other users from a decent > default theme because of a bug in some hardware? Why not fix the bug in > the hardware before? Not every driver supports ARGB cursors (I only see sis, ati and nv) So maybe the cards support ARGB cursors but the driver is not updated. I also prefer the pretty cursors but it's more important for me using the hardware accelerated cursor. Maybe a good default would be to always use HW cursor and if there's no support for ARGB cursor use the not alpha cursors. Would you default to that?
