On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Greetings. > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:44:47 +0200 Mark Hills <m...@xwax.org> wrote: > > I find when a window is un-focused that the cursor location looks too > > much like display content. > > > > Please consider this patch, which mimics xterm behaviour by displaying > > a hollow rectangle, and makes a saving of one colourmap entry :) > > I have applied your patch using the Xft routines. It looks a bit more > ugly to draw a simple rectangle, but it works. > > Please try the latest st out and see if this fits to your needs.
Thanks, I tried it and it looks the same. I'll continue to test. I can see why it's good to use one API throughout, but I was not aware that Xft was intended for anything but fonts -- it doesn't seem suckless to have to trick it into drawing a rectangle like this. More generally (st and beyond) I'm interested in why there is a push to deprecate use of functions like XDrawRectangle when there does not seem to be adequate replacement; I can't see an alternative in XRender or Xft without (presumably) more chatter with the server. I also did some tests (admittedly behind QT) and could not get comparable performance from XRender. Thanks for the update, -- Mark
