[PATCH] Make -nocursor a runtime option to and remove the compile time NULL_ROOT_CURSOR
John Tapsell
johnflux at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 02:05:46 PDT 2008
> Hmm, that seems a little odd. Seems like there are three camps here:
> * People writing display drivers (let's call them 'the minority')
> want a stipple and cursor. -> -retro
> * People starting regular desktop environments want the default
> behaviour. (Though I have slight doubts. I'd fall back on the
> default cursor being a NULL cursor unless forced otherwise, and
> IIRC the behaviour here is to suppress cursor realisation, which
> means you come back to an ugly root cursor, but that's fixable.)
> * People running consumer/embedded systems who can't trust their
> apps not to try to change the cursors want to silently drop all
> cursor rendering. -> patch required if deemed useful
* People who sometimes have to boot X in 'safe mode' (just X and
xterm) because kde/gnome won't start up.
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