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

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:10:14PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 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.

I'd argue for having -retro be the default. Anything that starts up X for
the user can relatively easily apply an extra command line option.

Without options, we should IMO clearly indicate whether X is working or not.

Cheers,
  Peter