XGetWindowAttributes to get the cursor?

Ivan Svirid vans554 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 18:59:28 UTC 2020


Yea but this only returns true/false it does not return the cursor_id.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:26 AM Lucien Gentis <
lucien.gentis at univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Perhaps you should look at XTest extension :
> https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xextproto/xtest.html
>
> See XTestCompareCursor function
> Le 04/11/2020 à 19:25, Ivan Svirid a écrit :
>
> So XSetWindowAttributes allows you to set the cursor on the window,
> basically this is the hardware cursor when your mouse enters the window
> that is displayed.
>
> Is there a way to readback this value from an existing window? Or perhaps
> another workaround to get the cursor on a specific window?
>
> I am aware there is XFixesSelectCursorInput but this listens for changes
> and grabs the current system cursor; not on a per window basis.
>
>
>
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