Re: [xcursor-transparent-theme][Patch] Add several cursors

[William Mills <wmills@ti.com>]

On 03/02/2016 07:48 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 2 March 2016 at 12:45, Johannes Pointner <h4nn35.work@gmail.com
> <mailto:h4nn35.work@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I didn't know this option.
>     But I think there is still a use case for the
>     xcursor-transparent-theme. Because the cursor theme can be set before
>     starting a new application without restarting X11.
> 
> 
> How do you handle users switching between applications in that case? Or
> the application crashing and leaving you without a cursor?  If a
> particular application should hide the cursor them it should just hide
> the cursor, if the entire UI shouldn't have a cursor then use -nocursor.
>

How about transparent when last user input was touch-screen but normal
when last input was mouse/touchpad?

This would be done on a per DISPLAY basis not a per app basis.

Of course I don't know where to put that code and if I were doing it
today I would put it into a wayland based arch but ...

> Don't worry, I won't be deleting the transparent theme just yet, but I
> do think it's a hack.
> 
> Ross
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