Re: FVWM: [OT] (semi-transparent) cursors

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Adam
2009/9/5 Viktor Griph : > The result of that will be that your shared function will override any > call to XDefineCursor made by the program. (Not that this won't work > if the program takes special measures to bind to the X-libraries > dynamically at runtime (SDL does that) in which case you would

Re: FVWM: [OT] (semi-transparent) cursors

2009-09-04 Thread Viktor Griph
2009/9/2 Lucio Chiappetti : > Not strictly an fvwm question, but there are surely lot of X competent > persons on this mailing list, so please forgive (and eventually redirect me > to more appropriate places). > > Is there a way to define (or emulate via another x application ?) an X > cursor which

Re: FVWM: again (semi-transparent) pseudo-cursors

2009-09-04 Thread Jonathan Kotta
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Thomas Adam wrote: > 2009/9/4 Lucio Chiappetti : >> However until I do not click again to terminate the move, any keyboard >> action (e.g. to advance slides) is inhibited. > > Obviously -- the pointer is grabbed at the point for the duration of > that function. > >>

Re: FVWM: again (semi-transparent) pseudo-cursors

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Adam
2009/9/4 Lucio Chiappetti : > However until I do not click again to terminate the move, any keyboard > action (e.g. to advance slides) is inhibited. Obviously -- the pointer is grabbed at the point for the duration of that function. > Is dynamic changement of icon supported by fvwm ? Depends; yo

Re: FVWM: again (semi-transparent) pseudo-cursors

2009-09-04 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Thomas Adam wrote: Sorry, I meant: s/icon/cursor/ oh yes that makes sense Anyhow I'm partially succeeding. I created a png with a red circle on transparent bkg with gimp, and start it as Exec rxvt -name Laser -iconic I use as style (it took a while to me to remember the

Re: FVWM: again (semi-transparent) pseudo-cursors

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Adam
2009/9/4 Lucio Chiappetti : > On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Thomas Adam wrote: >> >> 2009/9/4 Lucio Chiappetti : > >>>  - associate to an application (which could be a do-nothing application >>>    e.g. an xterm with a special title never opened, always iconized) >>>    an icon which is partially transparent

Re: FVWM: again (semi-transparent) pseudo-cursors

2009-09-04 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Thomas Adam wrote: 2009/9/4 Lucio Chiappetti :  - associate to an application (which could be a do-nothing application    e.g. an xterm with a special title never opened, always iconized)    an icon which is partially transparent (say a large red ellipse with    the interio

Re: FVWM: again (semi-transparent) pseudo-cursors

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Adam
2009/9/4 Lucio Chiappetti : > Let me rephrase my request of 2 Sep 2009. Maybe this could be an > fvwm-compliant solution to my need (repeated at bottom). > > Is there an fvwm way by which I can : > >  - associate to an application (which could be a do-nothing application >    e.g. an xterm with a s

FVWM: again (semi-transparent) pseudo-cursors

2009-09-04 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
Let me rephrase my request of 2 Sep 2009. Maybe this could be an fvwm-compliant solution to my need (repeated at bottom). Is there an fvwm way by which I can : - associate to an application (which could be a do-nothing application e.g. an xterm with a special title never opened, always ic