Re: Turning off mouse shadows in X Xorg 6.8 on Ati M9 hardware

On 14 Jun 2006 01:58:26 -0700, fishygroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
Dances With Crows wrote:
The "redglass" and "whiteglass" cursor themes that are standard with
modern X have things that look suspiciously like shadows on them. If
your "pointer" cursor is white with a drop shadow, you're almost
Yes the issue was with the drop shadow on the cursor being part of the
font. I'd initially assumed this wasn't the case, i.e. the shadow
being created in the same way a drop shadow around a window is. I'm
able to fix the problem by changing the default cursor font used.

Don't apply the word "font" to cursors. It causes confusion and will
make it difficult for people to figure out WTF you're talking about.
Anyway, it's good that you were able to fix this.

If you don't know which theme you're using, compile and run the
following snippet of C code:
Thanks for your help.

No problem. Now, I'm curious as to whether it's possible to use the
Xcursor functions to change cursor themes at runtime; it seems that it
doesn't work right in Xorg 6.8.2 even though XcursorSetTheme() returns
1. Maybe they've fixed this in 7.0....

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