Shadows with configurable light source for mouse cursors

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper]

Right.  So.  I've not gotten a single answer to this or the other 2 related 
questions on this list.  Is there a better place to ask such questions?  Is 
xorg@ not the right list for these questions?

On Sunday 20 March 2005 22:27, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> I've e-mailed Keith and asked him this and hopefully I'll not offend him by
> bringing my questions to him to the list.  =:)
>
> My questions for the list are...  Is anyone thinking about/working on doing
> this in the X core?  It's another one of those things you take for granted
> on Windows/OS X, but find _really_ annoying when you discover them missing
> from X.
>
> And just to be clear, I am talking about having X generate and draw shadows
> for the mouse cursor on the fly so that its users do not have to create the
> shadows in the mouse cursors themselves.  I would think that if one would
> be willing to do this, one might also consider allowing the user to specify
> the lightsource location and angle too.
>
> I believe that the nvidia driver does this through these settings:
>
>             Option      "CursorShadow" "on"
>             Option     "CursorShadowAlpha" "32"
>             Option      "CursorShadowXOffset" "8"
>             Option      "CursorShadowYOffset" "8"
>
> Is it possible to put this in the X core directly so that other drivers can
> take advantage of this feature?
>
> Thanks!!  =:)

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