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Re: Predefined Cursors in X Windows [message #40354]

Mon, 09 August 2004 10:18

Paul Van Delst[1]
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marcuirl wrote:
> Craig Markwardt <craigmnet@REMOVEcow.physics.wisc.edu> writes:
>
>
>> David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> writes:
>>
>>> In X Windows, these numbers have to be something else. Something
>>> that is defined in /usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h.
>>>
>>> Here is my question for you X windows guys. Is this file
>>> standard across all X windows implementations? If so,
>>> what number would I use to obtain these two types of
>>> cursors?
>>
>> David, I just looked on Linux, Solaris, SunOS, and Alpha machines.
>> They all have essentially the same file (authored by either X
>> Consortium or OpenGroup), and more importantly the numeric constants
>> are all the same.
>>
>> The cursors you want are:
>> #define XC_arrow 2
>> #define XC_xterm 152
>
>
> But does not necessarily live in the same place: redhat 7.3, 7.2 and
> recent fedora fc1
>
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/cursorfont.h
>
> a bit different from that above! HTH

The generic locations are links to the specific:

lnx142:/usr/include : dir | grep X11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 13 13:57 DPS -> ../X11R6/include/DPS/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20 Mar 10 10:19 Mrm -> ../X11R6/include/Mrm/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 13 13:57 X11 -> ../X11R6/include/X11/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19 Mar 10 10:19 Xm -> ../X11R6/include/Xm/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20 Mar 10 10:19 uil -> ../X11R6/include/uil/

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		Re: Predefined Cursors in X Windows By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 09 August 2004 10:18
		Re: Predefined Cursors in X Windows By: David Fanning on Mon, 09 August 2004 09:09
		Re: Predefined Cursors in X Windows By: marcuirl on Mon, 09 August 2004 09:01
		Re: Predefined Cursors in X Windows By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 09 August 2004 08:45
		Re: Predefined Cursors in X Windows By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 09 August 2004 08:18

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