Keith Packard wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:52 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > >> You don't "ask for" the stipple though. It's the default. > > My point was that if you want to avoid the vintage X appearance, you'd > likely start the X server with a black root window instead of the ugly > stipple, and we could hook the 'disable the cursor' mode to the same > option. Does that seem like a reasonable combination? I just can't > imagine any credible desktop environment wanting either the stipple or > the X cursor. >> The protocol, by the way, does _not_ mandate the stipple. It says that >> the initial contents are some unspecified two-color pattern made of >> blackPixel and whitePixel. There is a weasel argument here that having >> zero white pixels still counts as "two color" I guess. Even if you >> don't like that argument, we are the keepers of the spec, there's no >> reason we can't relax that requirement. > > Yes, I'm cool with the black root background; nicer looking, conforming > to the spec and everything.
A good solution would be to just replace the black cross cursor bitmap with an arrow cursor that is visible by default. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg