On Friday 9 July 2010, Chris Healy <[email protected]> wrote: > Simon, > > I saw your name as being the author for this change so I thought I would go > straight to you with my question. > Please don't omit a relevant mailing list when doing this - by all means CC me in, but I don't always have time to answer questions, and including the mailing list helps you get a timely answer.
> I have an embedded touchscreen device that should normally not have the > cursor visible, thus I want to use the -nocursor option, but for debugging > purposes, I need to be able to plug a mouse in and have a visible cursor. > (Because this is for debugging purposes, restarting the X Server is not an > option.) > > Is there a way to make the cursor visible again without restarting the X > Server? This is very deliberately not possible with the -nocursor option - it aims to ensure that the cursor cannot be displayed no matter how hard X applications try. You want to look at the XFixes extension - the -nocursor option simply alters the cursor behaviour to act as if a HideCursor request is in force for all possible windows. -- Simon Farnsworth Software Engineer ONELAN Limited http://www.onelan.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
