Bram, When Local Cursor Rendering is enabled, the viewer displays the cursor shape that the server has provided, but wherever the viewer itself thinks the cursor should be. The server does not tell the viewer where to render the cursor.
Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bram Biesbrouck > Sent: 17 October 2005 16:43 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Pointer Position Event > > Op maandag 17 oktober 2005 16:47, schreef James Weatherall: > > Bram, > > > > Are you saying that you can't move the mouse cursor when > running vncviewer > > inside a VNC server desktop? > > > > Regards, > > No, not at all, sorry for the confusion. I'm in the middle of > writing a screen > capture program for Linux. To be as machine independent as > possible, I'm > recording a vnc session, that is later parsed to a usable > video-editing > format. Everything is working fine, except the mouse cursor. > Of course, when using remote cursors, everything is fine, but > when I use the > local-cursor option to narrow down the bandwith on the > network, I receive one > mouse position event during the vncviewer startup and that's > it. I assume > (because the client is on the same machine as the server) > that the pointer > position is updated via X (probably for performance issues), > because I never > receive another pointer position update. > However, when I try the same when the server is on a remote > machine, I receive > lots of pointer position updates, and those are captured perfectly. > > My question is: how can I force the Xvnc server to send > pointerPositionEvents > to the viewer, when they reside on the same machine? > > Bram > > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bram Biesbrouck > > > Sent: 17 October 2005 12:31 > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Pointer Position Event > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a question regarding the pointerPos event. If I run > > > Xvnc on the same > > > machine as vncviewer, the viewer doesn't receive any > > > pointerPos events (I > > > assume the update is done directly through X). Is there a way > > > to force the > > > server to send these events to the viewer? > > > > > > thx, > > > > > > Bram > > > _______________________________________________ > > > VNC-List mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > [email protected] > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
