> X actually defines a cursor in terms of two bitmaps and doesn't know > anything about RGB cursors, as far as I can tell, but Windows does. I > didn't dig far enough to find out what limits X has for cursor size, if > any, or how the fallback from hardware cursor to software cursor works. > 32x32 is a typical limitation for display hardware. Anyway, the > required format conversion can be handled in the driver. X supports > specifying colors for cursor foreground and background. so this has to > be handled in some way, even though I've never seen any actually use > this feature.
IIRC, there is the XCursor extension which lets X have nice fancy cursors. 32 bit images (with alpha) and shadows are there, and they don't have to be 32x32. The cursors are drawn using the RENDER extention, so they constutiute as software cursors (albiet with hardware accellerated rendering support). For more info, there's the XCursor manpage, and various other docs... -Lucas _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
