It would be optimal to ask the rendering experts this question. Do you have any insight into this?
Thanks. <original message> Is it possible to have a cursor shadow that blends into the background? W2K has this and I find it very appealing. It almost gives a 3D look to the desktop, like your cursor is OVER all the windows. Is the alpha blending still not there to do this yet? </original message> James Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 30 September 2001 04:24, Codre Adrian wrote: > > > > The newest NVidia driver supports cursor shadow. > > > > i have a TNT 2 and kde 2.2.1 but i can't see any shadow even if i put > > in XF86Config: Option "CursorShadow" "true". > > I'm afraid I think it only works with Geforce cards and newer - IIRC > nvidia only added alpha transparency support for hardware cursors with > the Geforce, and as others have pointed out, XFree86 currently can't > emulate this in software, although this may change as people start > taking advantage of the Render extension in other bits of XFree86. > > Keith Packard (designer of Render) was talking a while back about > revamping X's cursor support to allow for coloured, animated, and > alpha-transparent cursors in a more general way, but I don't know if > anything has come of it yet. Render still needs work to perfect it, > other important extensions need work too (the Resize&Rotate extension _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
