Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread rhubarbpieguy
Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X? In explanation, years ago I suggested (to deafening silence), that Open Office offer a block/blinking block or underscore/blinking underscore cursor. However, I'd prefer no I-beam cursor in any application (browser,

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 07:26:07 am rhubarbpie...@gmail.com did opine: Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X? In explanation, years ago I suggested (to deafening silence), that Open Office offer a block/blinking block or underscore/blinking underscore

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 07:26:07 am rhubarbpie...@gmail.com did opine: Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X? In explanation, years ago I suggested (to deafening silence), that Open Office offer a block/blinking block or underscore/blinking underscore

Re: XGContextFromGC manual page

2011-01-18 Thread walter harms
the linux man-page project has a man-page called. It may be helpful to add such a page here also. re, wh Am 17.01.2011 16:55, schrieb Krzysztof Żelechowski: XGContextFromGC is not described in its manual page. It is described only in the libX11 book. Please fix, Chris

Re: EDID autodetection fail, whom to blame?

2011-01-18 Thread tom fogal
Atilla Filiz atilla.fi...@gmail.com writes: Some of the newer Sony Vaio laptops with Nvidia GPUs show a totally black screen when X starts with the propiatery drivers. [snip] What would be the proper solution to this problem? Is it a fault correctable by Xorg or are Nvidia people to be

Re: Intel (Xorg-7.6): No kernel modesetting driver detected

2011-01-18 Thread alupu
Hello,SYSTEM"ASUS P5E-VM HDMI" with Intel G35/ICH9R.Intel Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz, 4GB(B)LFS i686-pc-linux-gnu, 2.6.36.2, Udev-165PROBLEM (new)Installed the newly released intel-2.14.0 driver.The previous error (No modesetting) appears to have disappeared.There's a new fatal one:(EE) No

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread James Cloos
r == rhubarbpieguy rhubarbpie...@gmail.com writes: r Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X? Sure. You need to change the (server-side) cursor font used by older applications and also change the cursor theme used by most newer apps. Google should point to decent

Intel (Xorg-7.6): No kernel modesetting driver detected

2011-01-18 Thread alupu
Hello, This is a repeat mail. According to xorg archive, on the previous one An HTML attachment was scrubbed... Maybe better luck this time ... SYSTEM ASUS P5E-VM HDMI with Intel G35/ICH9R. Intel Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz, 4GB (B)LFS i686-pc-linux-gnu, 2.6.36.2, Udev-165 PROBLEM (new)

Re: XGContextFromGC manual page

2011-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/17/11 07:55 AM, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: XGContextFromGC is not described in its manual page. It is described only in the libX11 book. Please fix, Please file a bug report so that it's tracked, since it's not likely to be fixed right away.

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, James Cloos wrote: r == rhubarbpieguy rhubarbpie...@gmail.com writes: r Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X? Sure. You need to change the (server-side) cursor font used by older applications and also change the cursor theme used by most

Re: XGContextFromGC manual page

2011-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/18/11 01:48 PM, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: Dnia wtorek, 18 stycznia 2011 o 21:57:33 Alan Coopersmith napisał(a): On 01/17/11 07:55 AM, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: XGContextFromGC is not described in its manual page. It is described only in the libX11 book. Please fix, Please

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 05:17:14 pm Thomas Dickey did opine: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, James Cloos wrote: r == rhubarbpieguy rhubarbpie...@gmail.com writes: r Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X? Sure. You need to change the (server-side) cursor font used

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 05:17:14 pm Thomas Dickey did opine: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, James Cloos wrote: r == rhubarbpieguy rhubarbpie...@gmail.com writes: r Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X? Sure. You need to

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Pat Kane
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: That it is, but where is the list and description of the other options so that we can make considered choices? xrdb -q ? ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support

Re: XGContextFromGC manual page

2011-01-18 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia wtorek, 18 stycznia 2011 o 21:57:33 Alan Coopersmith napisał(a): On 01/17/11 07:55 AM, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: XGContextFromGC is not described in its manual page. It is described only in the libX11 book. Please fix, Please file a bug report so that it's tracked, since

Re: XGContextFromGC manual page

2011-01-18 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia wtorek, 18 stycznia 2011 o 18:47:55 walter harms napisał(a): the linux man-page project has a man-page called. It may be helpful to add such a page here also. The manual page for XGContextFromGC exists, except that it fails to describe XGContextFromGC. Cheers, Chris

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 07:58:58 pm Thomas Dickey did opine: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 05:17:14 pm Thomas Dickey did opine: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, James Cloos wrote: r == rhubarbpieguy rhubarbpie...@gmail.com writes: r Is it possible to

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/18/11 02:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: That it is, but where is the list and description of the other options so that we can make considered choices? For the standard cursor font: http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/appendix/b/ -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: Intel (Xorg-7.6): No kernel modesetting driver detected

2011-01-18 Thread Adam Jackson
On Jan 18, 2011, at 3:24 PM, al...@verizon.net wrote: Hello, This is a repeat mail. According to xorg archive, on the previous one An HTML attachment was scrubbed... Maybe better luck this time ... You've clipped away everything from the X log that might tell us why this error is

Re: forcing use of evdev driver for touchpad on DELL E4310 in fedora core 13

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:38:30PM +1100, pray...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: I need absolute rather than relative position from my touchpad. At Peter Hutterrer's suggestion I installed the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-evdev-touchpad.conf Section InputClass Identifier evdev

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 01:41:20 am mcnic...@austin.ibm.com did opine: From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 05:17:14 pm Thomas Dickey did opine: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, James Cloos wrote: r == rhubarbpieguy rhubarbpie...@gmail.com writes: