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- Mat Hostetter writes:
- > Is this the inverted cursor bug?
-
- ok, here is the deal with the `inverted cursor bug' (in which the mask
- is inverted and the portions of the cursor which should appear
- transparent are black).
-
- it seems that some x servers incorrectly interpret the `mask' bits in
- `XCreatePixmapCursor ()'. the spec (well, scheifler and gettys) says
- that mask bits set to zero specify pixels which are ignored
- (transparent).
-
- this is what executor does.
-
- but it seems that some x servers (dec x servers, the linux Xinside x
- server which i use) interpret the mask bits incorrectly.
-
- since i don't have any easy way from detecting if a given server has
- this problem, i have added the X resource `Executor.invertedCursorBug'
- and the option `-invertedcursorbug' which will cause executor to
- re-invert the cursor mask, making the cursor appear correctly on
- servers with this problem.
-
- if anyone else has ideas on how we can make this problem go away, i'd
- love to hear them.
-
- - Cotton
-
-