Re: saving ICOs

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

Am Son, 2003-06-29 um 20.35 schrieb Keith Packard:
> Around 20 o'clock on Jun 29, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> > I don't see how this is relevant, considering that RGBA is also
> > not supported for classic X cursors.
> 
> The Xcursor library "supports" ARGB cursors on top of legacy X servers by
> converting them to two-color+transparent through one of four different
> algorithms:
> 

Ah, I see. Xcursor could equally "support" animated cursors on top of
legacy X servers by using timeouts to XSetCursor repeatedly on the
client side, although I guess it could be difficult to integrate that
with the clients mainloop...

Matthias