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http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/date/20071011 Thursday October 11, 2007

Stupid nv_74 cursor tricks

For those who have already grabbed Nevada build 74 from the Solaris Express Community Edition downloads, you can try out the new cursor code available with the integration of libXcursor (which most XFree86 and Xorg platforms have had for a while).

If your graphics card supports the Render extension & 32-bit alpha cursors, (i.e. most x86 graphics, but not Sun Rays nor SPARC graphics yet - I've mainly used it on nvidia cards and my laptop with a ATI Radeon chipset), you can see them in action by doing: 

% su -
# mkdir -p /etc/dt/config/C/
# cat > /etc/dt/config/C/styleModern
#include "/usr/dt/config/C/styleModern"
Xcursor.theme: whiteglass
^D
# exit

% echo 'Xcursor.theme: whiteglass' >> ~/.Xresources

and then logout & log back in.

Change 'whiteglass' to 'redglass' in the above if you want something that stands out more.

Posted at 10:50PM Oct 11, 2007 by Alan Coopersmith in X11  |