Re: how to make a white cursor?

[Bob Chiodini <chiodr kscems ksc nasa gov>]

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 12:48, Zachary C. wrote:
> How do I change the current arrow (cursor) to a standard white one? My
> video hardware supports hardware acceleration of a standard white
> arrow, to help prevent flickering when moving the mouse over say a
> video or an animated gif or webpage scrolling or other objects on the
> screen being updated. I'd like it to use that, but since I've gone to
> FC1 it is black and flickers all over the place.
> 
> I went into prefs for root and all other users and changed the setting
> for Use White Cursor to enabled, rebooted and it's still the same
> black cursor. If I could get the black arrow to at least not flicker
> I'd be happy with that, but I think the only way to do that on my
> hardware is to have it the standard white one. 
> 
> -Zack 'clickwir'

Zack,

What kind of graphics card do you have?  Some support:

Option "HWCursor" "0" or Option "HWCursor" "1"

To turn the hardware cursor capabilities off or on, respectively.  This
Option is in the Device section of /etc/X11/XF86Config.  IIRC, some
cards exhibit problem you are seeing when HwCursor is enabled.

Bob...