From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 20169E00D6B; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 07:36:08 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -5.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, high * trust * [198.47.26.152 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from comal.ext.ti.com (comal.ext.ti.com [198.47.26.152]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF02EE00CA6 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 07:36:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from dflxv15.itg.ti.com ([128.247.5.124]) by comal.ext.ti.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id u22Fa2kO029387; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:36:02 -0600 Received: from DFLE72.ent.ti.com (dfle72.ent.ti.com [128.247.5.109]) by dflxv15.itg.ti.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u22Fa2Cd031308; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:36:02 -0600 Received: from dflp33.itg.ti.com (10.64.6.16) by DFLE72.ent.ti.com (128.247.5.109) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.224.2; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:36:01 -0600 Received: from [172.22.156.156] (ileax41-snat.itg.ti.com [10.172.224.153]) by dflp33.itg.ti.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u22Fa1D5024722; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:36:01 -0600 To: "Burton, Ross" , Johannes Pointner References: <1456876322-11550-1-git-send-email-johannes.pointner@gmail.com> From: William Mills Message-ID: <56D70862.4070509@ti.com> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:36:02 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Cc: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: [xcursor-transparent-theme][Patch] Add several cursors X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:36:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/02/2016 07:48 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 2 March 2016 at 12:45, Johannes Pointner > wrote: > > 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 > >