On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Matthew Allum wrote:
> on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:14:07AM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > This has been discussed and answered many times. The answer is no.
> >
> > 1) X always must always have a cursor.
> >
> > 2) The cursor's appearence depends on the window it is over.
> >
> > You can change the root window cursor with xsetroot, and if another
> > window doesn't specify a cursor, it inherits the cursor from it's
> > parent. If no parent all the way down to the root window has
> > specified a cursor then that window gets the root window cursor.
> > But if windows have specified cursors explicitly, there's nothing
> > you can do about that.
> >
>
> *but* if you use a libXcursor theme with every cursor icon fully
> transparent you can *really* get rid of the cursor, an app changing
> the cursors appearance just changes it to another 'invisible' cursor.
>
> I've not seen this 'technique' discussed before.
>
This will not be able to change the behavior of an app that
installs a custom cursor.
Mark.
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