Re: colorful mouse cursor with XF4.3pre1v1
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:12, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:58, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 12:49, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 10:27, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 00:51, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 22:19, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I was using daniels packages for xfree86 where I could use these nice
> > > > > > transparent and colorful mouse cursors...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > However since updating to 4.3.0-0pre1v1 from debian experimental it does
> > > > > > no longer work...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is anyone else experiencing this ?
> > > > >
> > > > > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=204358
> > >
> > > Hmmhh, I apt-get -b source libxcursor1 and sudo dpkg -i libxcurs*.deb
> > > and then it worked...
> >
> > Rebuilding with a pbuilder sid chroot doesn't seem to change anything
> > here.
> >
> > BTW, it doesn't really work even when a symlink is picked up here: the
> > themed cursors are used, but they seem to be converted to core cursors,
> > which looks butt ugly. I wonder if this (sub)problem is architecture
> > specific?
>
> Right, this is exactly what I happened to observe too, i.e. seeing a b/w
> cursor instead of the colorful variant.... I don't know exactly why it
> works now, but really all I did was to reinstall all versions to be the
> ones from 4.3.0-0pre1v1 and then rebuild the libxcursor stuff
I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what makes the
difference: libXcursor doesn't seem to support ARGB cursors unless it's
built against 4.3 X libraries. Until they enter sid, it might be a good
idea to upload xcursor built against experimental to experimental?
(Unless someone knows the root cause of all this and can fix it, of
course :)
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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