On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > Not having a visible cursor by default poses problems with a lot of users: > when > they are faced with a completely dark screen without even a moving mouse, they > think their machine is completely hung, while it could just be that X clients > can't connect or are not starting for some reason. > > Fixes: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26798 > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> > > diff --git a/doc/Xserver.man.pre b/doc/Xserver.man.pre > index ce3b3a1..9a93d12 100644 > --- a/doc/Xserver.man.pre > +++ b/doc/Xserver.man.pre > @@ -208,9 +208,8 @@ turns off auto-repeat. > turns on auto-repeat. > .TP 8 > .B -retro > -starts the stipple with the classic stipple and cursor visible. The default > -is to start with a black root window, and to suppress display of the cursor > -until the first time an application calls XDefineCursor(). For the Xorg > +starts the stipple with the classic stipple. The default > +is to start with a black root window. For the Xorg > server, this also sets the default for the DontZap option to FALSE. For > kdrive servers, this implies -zap. > .TP 8 > diff --git a/os/utils.c b/os/utils.c > index 51455cc..0b03deb 100644 > --- a/os/utils.c > +++ b/os/utils.c > @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ void UseMsg(void) > ErrorF("-r turns off auto-repeat\n"); > ErrorF("r turns on auto-repeat \n"); > ErrorF("-render [default|mono|gray|color] set render color alloc > policy\n"); > - ErrorF("-retro start with classic stipple and cursor\n"); > + ErrorF("-retro start with classic stipple\n"); > ErrorF("-s # screen-saver timeout (minutes)\n"); > ErrorF("-t # default pointer threshold (pixels/t)\n"); > ErrorF("-terminate terminate at server reset\n"); > diff --git a/xfixes/cursor.c b/xfixes/cursor.c > index 41ba0fb..22477ff 100644 > --- a/xfixes/cursor.c > +++ b/xfixes/cursor.c > @@ -1034,8 +1034,7 @@ XFixesCursorInit (void) > { > int i; > > - if (party_like_its_1989) > - CursorVisible = EnableCursor; > + CursorVisible = EnableCursor; > > if (!dixRegisterPrivateKey(&CursorScreenPrivateKeyRec, PRIVATE_SCREEN, 0)) > return FALSE; > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
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