Around 16 o'clock on Oct 24, "J. Imlay" wrote:

> If I understand things correctly the hardware cursor suported
> in XAA is 2bit, so you can't have true color cursors. Is this going to
> change with this extension? Or I am wrong and you can have colored cursors
> in X?

XFree86 already has a software fallback mechanism for cursors which aren't 
supported by the hardware.  ARGB cursors are just kind of cursor which 
XFree86 passes back to the software layer.  At some point, the driver 
interface can be expanded to expose these cursors to the underlying 
software for hardware which does support these kinds of cursors.

If you're running current XFree86 CVS, you should be seeing ARGB cursors 
all over your screen as Xlib has been hacked to use them in place of the 
stock cursor images.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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