What about having a very small, 'always on top', background-colour, transparent cursor window in the corner, and (periodically?) set the mouse coords to it..?
-Oli >===== Original Message From "Peter \"Firefly\" Lund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Michael Heydon wrote: > >> That still has the problem that it only stays as that image while over the root window (iirc). >> is there any way to force the cursor to stay the same when it is over other windows? > >Have a program walk the tree of windows regularly and force the cursor for >all the windows to be transparent. > >It's a hack but it sorta works. Once in a while a mouse cursor will be >visible briefly -- and some programs may become confused. Perhaps you can >live with that? > >Otherwise you'll have to hack the X server -- or write an X proxy that >translates the requests that set the mouse cursor shape :) > >-Peter > >Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; >Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish >_______________________________________________ >XFree86 mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86