The XFixes extension in X11R6.8 has the ability to get the cursor image, as an ARGB image. Send hate mail to keithp that he hasn't update the man page... - Jim On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:50 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:07 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > > > I first suspected an X problem, but the problem doesn't occur in KDE. > > Rather, sometimes in KDE I see an extra pointer appear for an instant, but > > it never lasts longer than an instant. Also, the problem doesn't occur > > [in gnome] when I am logged in as root. > > > > I created a test user with default settings, and she had the problem as > > well. > > > > I don't know much about X and the various display managers [yet], so I'm > > afraid I can't ask a more specific question than, "why does this happen?" > > It's really annoying to watch a movie with a big white hand in the middle > > of the screen. > > X bug.. the desktop doesn't have access to the mouse pointer image > even if it wanted to. The fact that KDE doesn't trigger it is > coincidental. I'd file a Debian X bug report with full details of > your hardware. > > Regards, > Owen > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list