On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:10:14PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Samuel Thibault > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not having a visible cursor by default poses problems with a lot of users: > > when > > they are faced with a completely dark screen without even a moving mouse, > > they > > think their machine is completely hung, while it could just be that X > > clients > > can't connect or are not starting for some reason. > > NAK on the this needs discussion grounds. > > Seems like this was the whole point of the retro stuff in the first > place, to not display a cursor and not draw a background. > > So I'm not sure thats a bug as much as it is as-designed.
I'd argue for having -retro be the default. Anything that starts up X for the user can relatively easily apply an extra command line option. Without options, we should IMO clearly indicate whether X is working or not. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
