On 6/18/19 8:16 AM, Laurentiu-Cristian Duca wrote:
> when I run startx, the mouse pointer is not visible anymore. The
> athena application
> appears on the screen but I can not press the button because it is no
> mouse on the screen.
>
> Any ideas on how to get mouse on the screen without calling xterm ?
Modern X servers do not draw the mouse cursor until a program sets the
cursor image. So you should be able to get the mouse on screen with:
- modifying the athena application to set a cursor image
- starting the X server with the -retro flag to get the old behavior
with the default X cursor shown at startup (see the Xserver(1) man
page for the -retro flag)
- running another program that sets the cursor image, such as
xsetroot -cursor_name bogosity
(See /usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h for the available names or
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/x-window-system/9780937175149/ChapterD.html
for pictures.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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