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2010-04-18 , 15:57
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#1
Hi,

Messing with Synergy and I'm curious -- is it possible to enable a mouse cursor to be shown all the time? I'm currently using this quick hack I knocked up
PHP Code:
#include <gdk/gdkx.h>
#include <gtk/gtk.h>

int main (void)
{
    GdkPixbuf *pixbuf = NULL;
    GdkCursor *cursor = NULL; 

    gtk_init (NULL, NULL);

    pixbuf = gtk_icon_theme_load_icon (gtk_icon_theme_get_default (), "browser_cursor", 32, 0, NULL);
    g_assert (pixbuf);
    gint x = (gdk_pixbuf_get_width (pixbuf) / 2) - 7; /* Maths is shitty */
    gint y = (gdk_pixbuf_get_height (pixbuf) / 2) - 7;

    cursor = gdk_cursor_new_from_pixbuf (gdk_display_get_default (), pixbuf, x, y); /* I should be freeing you (and others)... */
    g_assert (cursor);
    gdk_window_set_cursor (gdk_window_foreign_new (GDK_ROOT_WINDOW ()), cursor);
    g_idle_add ((GSourceFunc) gtk_main_quit, NULL);
    gtk_main ();
    
    return 0;
} 
but the cursor flickers a lot. :\ Would anyone know if it's possible to replace the cursors, like it was on the N800?
 
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2010-04-19 , 01:34
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#2
I would like to know also there's cursors in /usr/share/icons/default/cursors and they are symlinked to the file "transp" which is an transparent cursor i think? Replacing it with a non-transparent would fix it?
 

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2010-04-19 , 17:33
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Nokia-N900-51-1:/usr/share/icons/default/cursors# ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 00008160000006810000408080010102 -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 028006030e0e7ebffc7f7070c0600140 -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 03b6e0fcb3499374a867c041f52298f0 -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 08e8e1c95fe2fc01f976f1e063a24ccd -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 14fef782d02440884392942c11205230 -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 2870a09082c103050810ffdffffe0204 -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 3ecb610c1bf2410f44200f48c40d3599 -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 4498f0e0c1937ffe01fd06f973665830 -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 9d800788f1b08800ae810202380a0822 -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 X_cursor -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 arrow -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 base_arrow_down -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 base_arrow_up -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 based_arrow_down -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 based_arrow_up -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 bd_double_arrow -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 boat -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 bottom_left_corner -> transp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 17 13:34 bottom_right_corner -> transp
and so on...
 

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2010-04-19 , 17:42
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#4
I replaced my transp with a red dot I made. Works.
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2010-04-20 , 20:38
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can you explain how you did this? Got synergy working but it's useless without a cursor.
 

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2010-04-23 , 06:53
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#6
Replacing them with the Bluecurve-inverse ones certainly did not work for me. All I got was some selection cursors in Evince, a mouse cursor in Tear and a mouse cursor in Qt apps. Not in anything else at all.

Back to my hack which actually works.
 

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