on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:14:07AM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > This has been discussed and answered many times. The answer is no. > > 1) X always must always have a cursor. > > 2) The cursor's appearence depends on the window it is over. > > You can change the root window cursor with xsetroot, and if another > window doesn't specify a cursor, it inherits the cursor from it's > parent. If no parent all the way down to the root window has > specified a cursor then that window gets the root window cursor. > But if windows have specified cursors explicitly, there's nothing > you can do about that. >
*but* if you use a libXcursor theme with every cursor icon fully transparent you can *really* get rid of the cursor, an app changing the cursors appearance just changes it to another 'invisible' cursor. I've not seen this 'technique' discussed before. -- Matthew _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
