how to make a white cursor?

Zachary C. clickwir at clickwir.com
Wed Apr 21 17:23:28 UTC 2004


The video card is a Matrox G450. I'm not useing dualhead but it has the
capability. Its currently at the default driver of "mga".


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Chiodini" <chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: how to make a white cursor?


> 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...
>
>
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