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  • How can you get the current cursor/pointer in X windows?

    From Spiros Bousbouras@21:1/5 to johnbenny@nowhere.co.uk on Mon May 6 16:04:05 2019
    XPost: comp.unix.programmer

    On Mon, 6 May 2019 15:30:09 +0000 (UTC)
    johnbenny@nowhere.co.uk wrote:
    Hello

    I need to get the current mouse cursor/pointer being displayed by the X server
    in a window but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do it in Xlib. XDefineCursor() sets it but there doesn't appear to be a way to get it.

    [Crossposting to comp.windows.x]

    XQueryPointer()

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  • From johnbenny@nowhere.co.uk@21:1/5 to Spiros Bousbouras on Mon May 6 16:08:05 2019
    XPost: comp.unix.programmer

    On Mon, 06 May 2019 16:04:05 GMT
    Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 6 May 2019 15:30:09 +0000 (UTC)
    johnbenny@nowhere.co.uk wrote:
    Hello

    I need to get the current mouse cursor/pointer being displayed by the X >server
    in a window but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do it in Xlib.
    XDefineCursor() sets it but there doesn't appear to be a way to get it.

    [Crossposting to comp.windows.x]

    XQueryPointer()

    While that returns details about the pointer window and location it doesn't return the glyph or bitmap currently being used for the pointer itself.

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