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 
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