XCreatePixmapCursor stats a lot of files...

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 01 of October 2007, Glynn Clements wrote:
> BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> > I'm sending two Pixmaps, one for the bitmap and another
> > for the mask to XCreatePixmapCursor(). This data completely specifies
> > the appearance of the cursor. How could any theming be necessary? The
> > man page doesn't mention theming.
>
> Theming isn't necessary. If you tell X to use a specific pixmap pair
> as the cursor, it should do exactly that.
>
> If someone is trying to implement "automagic" theming by intercepting
> XCreatePixmapCursor(), they urgently need to be shot^H^H^H^H
> re-educated.
>
> If you want themed cursors, use functions which provide themed
> cursors. If you call XCreatePixmapCursor(), using anything other than
> the specified pixmap/mask is a bug, period.

 No, it is a feature AFAIK. XCreatePixmapCursor() is from Xlib, i.e. it's been 
there since ever, but libXcusor is much younger, meaning not everybody uses 
it. Or that was at least the case when it was new, definitely. Back then 
everybody used their own cursors since the standard X cursors set lacks many 
basic ones. And when Xcursor and themable cursors came, standard X cursor 
could be themed, but the hand-made ones couldn't -> here comes the automagic 
theming to save the day.

 The fact that the cursor theming is pretty inefficient is a different matter 
though :(.

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