Hi, "Ken Tanaka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to have the mouse cursor arrow appear in the window of an > acquired screenshot. This is for when I want to illustrate a > pulldown menu item. When I use the Acquire screenshot functionality > of the GIMP, the cursor doesn't appear. Is there a way to have the > cursor show up? Perhaps a different screenshot program, but all the > ones I've seen on my system also leave the cursor arrow out of the > screenshot. The way the X window system works basically makes it impossible to take a screenshot that shows the mouse cursor. So you need to add it later (programmatically or manually). > I'd rather not have to draw a cursor on the image later. Might not > be so bad if there was a brush shape that looked like an arrow. Is > it possible to add a cursor arrow brush? If so it's probably already > been done, but I don't know where to get it. All cursors that GIMP uses are available as PNG files in the GIMP source tree. Standard X cursors can certainly also be downloaded as image files somewhere. In order to create a GIMP brush from such an image file, all you need to do is to save it in your personal brushes folder ~/gimp-x.y/brushes. Perhaps someone wants to make a nice collection of mouse cursor brushes for The GIMP? > I'm using GIMP 1.2.3 Please upgrade to GIMP 2.2 then. That won't add a mouse cursor to your screenshots, but there are enough other good reasons. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
