On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Grant Wallace wrote:

> I earlier had a question regarding how to support
> multiple pointers. One reply to that was to write a
> Window Manager to handle this. I can see how the
> window manager can handle moving windows
> simultaneously and redirecting input to windows
> simultaneously. But I'm wondering how would one render
> multiple cursors from the window manager. It seems if
> it was just drawn on the root window then other
> windows would obscure it. Is there a way to draw a top
> level window that is transparent? Or is there some
> other trick to getting multiple cursors rendered that
> will always be on top?

The SHAPE extension should let you have a window the
shape of the cursor.

Just make sure that all the cursor windows stay on top
of the window stack.
The 8+24 (and any other "overlay") modes have two window stacks;
don't forget to put the cursors in the top layer.

-- 
Andrew C Aitchison


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