Greetings. On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:40:23 +0200 Mark Hills <m...@xwax.org> wrote: > 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.
I don’t have the lifetime to fix X11 and X11 abstraction distortion and ugliness. This is just about keeping to one API. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
