I'm not going blind, but my eyes are getting older. Every time a new
vncviewer comes out, I change the "dotcursor", so I can actually see
it. But I never remember to post the two simple changes that make it
far more usable to people like me. I guess I'm always hoping this will
show up in the next release of the software, but perhaps it doesn't
bother other people as much as it bothers me.
This change uses cursorfont.h, which I've found in most Unix-like X
include directories. It uses the "crosshair" cursor, instead of the
dot. I've found that the lines of the crosshair are small enough to
make it relatively unobtrusive, but it is still a lot easier to find on
the screen than the dot.
I've done this to IRIX, Solaris, and Mac OSX (10.3.x). I can't vouch
for other Unices, but I suspect it's a fairly generic change.
For the current distribution, the change is to
vnc-4_1_2-unixsrc/unix/vncviewer/DesktopWindow.cxx
Here is the patch. For those unfamiliar, you can just cd to the
directory above the vnc source distribution and paste all of the
commands below on a command line. Hope this helps others.
-Jon
cd vnc-4_1_2-unixsrc/unix/vncviewer/
patch << END
*** DesktopWindow.cxx.orig Mon Jul 10 14:22:04 2006
--- DesktopWindow.cxx Mon Jul 10 14:24:02 2006
***************
*** 27,32 ****
--- 27,33 ----
#include <X11/Xatom.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
+ #include <X11/cursorfont.h>
#include "parameters.h"
#ifndef XK_ISO_Left_Tab
***************
*** 115,121 ****
XColor fg, bg;
fg.red = fg.green = fg.blue = 0;
bg.red = bg.green = bg.blue = 0xffff;
! dotCursor = XCreatePixmapCursor(dpy, source, mask, &fg, &bg, 2, 2);
XFreePixmap(dpy, source);
XFreePixmap(dpy, mask);
char zero = 0;
--- 116,123 ----
XColor fg, bg;
fg.red = fg.green = fg.blue = 0;
bg.red = bg.green = bg.blue = 0xffff;
! // dotCursor = XCreatePixmapCursor(dpy, source, mask, &fg, &bg, 2,
2);
! dotCursor = XCreateFontCursor(dpy, XC_crosshair);
XFreePixmap(dpy, source);
XFreePixmap(dpy, mask);
char zero = 0;
END
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