
arewe (mouse pointers for X)
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
This is a set of cursors I'm working on. It is a very preliminary version, and I only put it here because the main cursors (the usual pointer and the text pointer) are done, and these are what people are most interested in.
I'm using the excellent decurs program to do these pointers.
To install,
gunzip arewe.bdf.gz
bdftopcf arewe.bdf -o cursor.pcf
gzip cursor.pcf
cp cursor.pcf.gz ${some font dir (ex: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc}
restart X.
Btw, KDE seems to override some of the pointers. I would appreciate if someone told me how to undo this overriding.
Enjoy.
18 years ago
0.1.0 - Initial Release.
18 years ago
0.1.0 - Initial Release.
Ty
18 years ago
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Richardve
18 years ago
And currently it isn't possible (AFAIK) to have (per pixel) alpha values for any window in X. :(
(please correct me if I'm wrong)
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Ty
18 years ago
What I'm talking about is FAKING IT by drawing something that simulates a shadow onto the cursor itself, ie, it's part of the cursor image.
Take, for example, the standard white arrow cursor. It has a black border all the way around it. Now make the right and botton borders a little bit thicker and color them grey. A simulated shadow if you wull.
No blending or anything else like that, nothing whatsoever to do with XRender. If you can draw cursors in all shapes and sizes as we do already, you can do this. It won't look like the blending found with the hardware accelerated stuff. It will look like a regular cursor with a drawn-in dropshadow (ie, like handind drawing "3D" letters on a piece of paper - a part of the image itself).
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Richardve
18 years ago
AFAIK you can only use black and white, no colors, no grays.
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Ty
18 years ago
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