On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:47:44AM +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 19/01/2009 19:03, Jesse Barnes a écrit : > > Gah, yeah forgot about drag& drop of big icons... Maybe Kristian was right > > that all cursors should be done in software; hardware just doesn't provide > > the flexibility desktops want these days. > > Maybe there could be a way to prioritize input events over rendering > requests within the server, but going full software for the cursor > sounds like the best solution. It's only a pixmap after all...
Input events are already hugely prioritised, and indeed done in a SIGIO handler. The main place you tend to fall apart is where the X server is paged out, and you have to wait while other parts of it get paged in. Cheers, Daniel
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