[PATCH] Add a return value to set_cursor_position() to allow it to report failure

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Apr 21 22:00:29 PDT 2014


Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com> writes:

> set_cursor_position() may need to be able to fail and have the server fall
> back to a software cursor in at least the situation in which we are running
> on virtual hardware and using the host cursor as a hardware cursor for the
> guest but cannot change its position.

Frankly, the usual "solution" for nested or virtual X servers is to just
ignore the cursor position assignment.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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