getting mouse cursor themes in X to change for existing windows

Xavier Bestel xavier.bestel at free.fr
Mon Mar 21 02:40:37 PST 2005


Le dimanche 20 mars 2005 à 22:05 -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper a écrit :
> Hi there,
> 
> I would have thought this to be a FAQ, but I haven't seen it anywhere (and 
> I've looked), so I'll ask it here.
> 
> Is it technically possible to change the mouse cursor theme for an existing 
> window (without having to restart X or for the change to only take effect for 
> new windows)? 

This is a job for the toolkits (e.g. GTK+). When the user changes theme,
the toolkit should update each client's colors, cursors, etc.

	Xav





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