Bug#253280: gtk2-engines-industrial: problems with new xcursors default

Josselin Mouette 253280@bugs.debian.org, 253280@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:16:04 +0100


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Le vendredi 14 janvier 2005 =E0 11:32 +0000, ROBERTOJIMENOCA a =E9crit :
> > Is it also true of alpha cursors? I think they are displayed using the
> > RENDER extension, not the hardware cursor mechanism.
>=20
> sis, ati and nv xfree86 drivers support ARGB HW cursors

And others use the RENDER extension, what's the problem with it?

> I also prefer the pretty cursors but it's more important for me using
> the hardware accelerated cursor.
>=20
> Maybe a good default would be to always use HW cursor and if there's no
> support for ARGB cursor use the not alpha cursors.
> Would you default to that?

There's no way we can detect that. This is a bug in XFree86, and it
should be fixed, full stop. This is not something that can be worked
around easily. If you want to see this fixed, please help fixing the
broken driver of your graphics card.
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