mouse-cursor

Transparent X11 Cursor Theme - Why does the X cursor appear in GTK+ subwindows?

Hi, I am using the transparent cursor theme trick (see http://obiltschnig.com/2010/08/14/hiding-the-gtkx11-mouse-cursor/) to hide the X11 cursor in a fullscreen Linux GTK+ application for a touchscreen-based device. I am basically running a WebKit GTK+-based application using the Xorg server with no window manager in fullscreen mode. No...

How to prevent cursor from "jumping" into textbox when you type

If you have a focus on a textbox but mousecursor not exactly hovering on it, mousecursor has default arrow shape or whatever you define. At the time when you start typing, mousecursor hide itself and you see only blinking stick IBeam type cursor in the textbox. Question: How to hold mousecursor on its initial position even if you star...

C++ - change the cursor in an X Window

I thought this would be easy to find, but a google search has been very unhelpful. Is there a simple api to change the mouse cursor in your X window? (I know in windows you can just call "SetCursor") ...

Custom made win32 drag-drop, can't get change invalid (slashed circle ) cursor.

Hi, I've a quite difficult problem to explain but I will try my best. I've made a custom drag-drop implementation to a win32 GUI based application. Due to limitations of the program I can't use the proper OLE drag-drop mechanism. Its okey, I made my own with mouse key tracking and it works so so. The only problem I can't solve now is t...

Turning off process feedback cursor in windows

Is it possible to disable the mouse feedback cursor when a process begins from within the process? I know you can use the STARTF_FORCEOFFFEEDBACK flag when creating the process, and that the feedback cursor will turn off when the process displays a window. However, I do not have control over the code that creates my process and my proce...

How do I make an image follow the cursor even outside an application?

In VB.Net with Winforms how do I make an image follow the cursor even when it leaves the form? I want to do this during a drag and drop operation. BCL and/or GDI is better for my usecase than P/Invokes. If you are familiar with PeaZip, it does something of this sort when dragging a file from it's interface. ...

SDL changing cursor to Windows default

I'm making a simple windowed game and I want a standard system cursor instead of SDL's black one. Is this possible without manual creation of cursor? ...