Re: Mouse pointer appearance problem

[o Kiselkov <address@hidden>]

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It is merely a matter of X-Windows configuration and the environment you
have. On OSX the WindowServer process itself changes the cursor when the
active window stops responding for more than 2 seconds. On X-Windows I'm
sure there is one of the gazillion extensions to do it (or your session
manager is supposed to do that). WindowMaker doesn't take care of
changing the cursor's appearance automatically.

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Saso

Andreas Höschler wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>>> Another but related issue is the hour glass known from Windows or Mac
>>> that gives the user visual feedabck of the main thread doing something
>>> time consuming. Under GNUstep we don't have that (right?) which lets
>>> the user think the application hangs if it does not react for 5 or more
>>> seconds. What had to be done to realize a hour glass for GNustep?
>>
>> Probably you need a plugin for your X server (or window manager) that
>> changes the cursor if there are no regular requests coming from a
>> client that owns a window (at least this appears the mechanism to be
>> on the Mac). The issue is that a hanging application can't acitvely
>> change the cursor if it hangs...
> 
> Thanks! Yes, that's probably how it has to work. I am just wondering
> whether "hour glass" is such an advanced feature that only Mac, NeXTstep
> and Windows have it. I must admit that I never really worked with
> Non-GNUstep apps on Solaris/Linux/... so I have no idea whether this
> feature (hour glass) simply does not exist in the unix world (Solaris,
> Linux,...) or if it only does not work in a GNUstep/Window Maker
> environment. I almost believe/fear this is a general issue on Solaris,
> Linux,... Can anybody confirm that hour glass is available, e.g. in a
> KDE environment?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Andreas
> 
> 
> 
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