[PATCH] xserver: Enable visible cursor on start without -retro #26798

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 19:10:14 PDT 2010


On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Not having a visible cursor by default poses problems with a lot of users: when
> they are faced with a completely dark screen without even a moving mouse, they
> think their machine is completely hung, while it could just be that X clients
> can't connect or are not starting for some reason.

NAK on the this needs discussion grounds.

Seems like this was the whole point of the retro stuff in the first
place, to not display a cursor and not draw a background.

So I'm not sure thats a bug as much as it is as-designed.

Dave.


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