Re: [tigervnc-announce] TigerVNC 1.8.0

[DRC]

How does one exercise the alpha cursor feature? Is this specific to certain window managers?

> On May 16, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Pierre Ossman <oss...@cendio.se> wrote:
>
> The full release of TigerVNC 1.8.0 is now available. Lots of changes have been made since
> the last release, but the highlights are:
>
> - Overhaul of the Java client to match the look and behaviour of the native client
> - Initial work for multi-threaded decoding in the Java client
> - vncconfig no longer needed for clipboard with Xvnc/libvnc.so
> - vncserver has system wide config support
> - Reduced CPU usage in the native viewer on macOS
> - macOS requirement raised to 10.6
> - Full support for alpha cursors in Xvnc/libvnc.so and both viewers
>
> Binaries are available from bintray:
>
> https://bintray.com/tigervnc/stable/tigervnc/1.8.0
>
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> The TigerVNC Developers
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[Pierre Ossman]

On 19/05/17 17:50, DRC wrote:
> How does one exercise the alpha cursor feature? Is this specific to certain window managers?
>

Technically, but I think most use cursors with alpha these days. You
should notice the shadow and outline being smoother instead of jagged edges.

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[Alan Coopersmith]

On 05/22/17 05:15 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On 19/05/17 17:50, DRC wrote:
>> How does one exercise the alpha cursor feature? Is this specific to certain
>> window managers?
>>
>
> Technically, but I think most use cursors with alpha these days. You should
> notice the shadow and outline being smoother instead of jagged edges.

Even old window managers can be tricked into using alpha cursors via Xresources
(unless you've disabled this functionality in libX11 - it's built by default).
When we first added libXcursor to Solaris about a decade ago, I tested 32-bit
alpha cursors in CDE with no code changes with a simple:

% echo 'Xcursor.theme: whiteglass' >> ~/.Xresources

More info:
man Xcursor
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cursor_themes
#ifdef USE_DYNAMIC_XCURSOR bits in libX11 sources

-alan-