"Effectively, if your 3rd party app defines a custom pixmap cursor whose ID is not a constant, you cannot retrieve it.
Yea I know thats why I asked on the mailing list this question haha. Thanks I guess.. On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 7:19 AM Lucien Gentis < lucien.gen...@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote: > Effectively, if your 3rd party app defines a custom pixmap cursor whose ID > is not a constant, you cannot retrieve it. > > Or perhaps if you test this cursor comparing it with all constant values > enumerated in cursorfont.h, if it does not correspond with any of these, it > could be your 3rd party app window. > > Sorry, but I can't help you more. > > Lucien > Le 20/11/2020 à 19:22, Ivan Svirid a écrit : > > The whole point is a random 3rd party app makes a custom pixmap cursor, > and I was wondering if there is a call to retrieve > the cursor the 3rd party window I have no control over has defined. With > the intention to get the XImage backing it > and copy the pixels. > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 1:11 PM Lucien Gentis < > lucien.gen...@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote: > >> Don't you know the ID of your custom pixmap cursors ? >> >> If you do, you can add them to the cases of the switch. >> Le 20/11/2020 à 15:22, Ivan Svirid a écrit : >> >> Yea but this does not work with custom pixmap cursors that are not part >> of the system cursor theme. >> >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 7:05 AM Lucien Gentis < >> lucien.gen...@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote: >> >>> In fact, cursor id are defined in cursorfont.h like XC_top_left_corner, >>> XC_double_arrow,... >>> Le 20/11/2020 à 12:42, Lucien Gentis a écrit : >>> >>> You can write a function which uses XTestCompareCursor in a switch which >>> tests known cursor id (top_left_corner, h_double_arrow,...) >>> Le 19/11/2020 à 19:59, Ivan Svirid a écrit : >>> >>> Yea but this only returns true/false it does not return the cursor_id. >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:26 AM Lucien Gentis < >>> lucien.gen...@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Perhaps you should look at XTest extension : >>>> https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xextproto/xtest.html >>>> >>>> See XTestCompareCursor function >>>> Le 04/11/2020 à 19:25, Ivan Svirid a écrit : >>>> >>>> So XSetWindowAttributes allows you to set the cursor on the window, >>>> basically this is the hardware cursor when your mouse enters the window >>>> that is displayed. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to readback this value from an existing window? Or >>>> perhaps another workaround to get the cursor on a specific window? >>>> >>>> I am aware there is XFixesSelectCursorInput but this listens for >>>> changes and grabs the current system cursor; not on a per window basis. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________x...@lists.x.org: X.Org >>>> support >>>> Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg >>>> Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg >>>> Your subscription address: %(user_address)s >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________x...@lists.x.org: X.Org >>> support >>> Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg >>> Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg >>> Your subscription address: %(user_address)s >>> >>>
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