Xrender cursor performance / double buffering?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 16:47 , Jordan Crouse wrote:

> On 17/04/07 16:25 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> XO is not using the HW cursor anyway because, as you point out, that
>> only supports 2 bit cursors (1 bit black/white, 1 bit alpha).
>
> So I'm confused.  You know that the hardware can only do two bit  
> cursors.
> Yet you are ignoring that, and purposely taking a performance hit so
> you can have a more colorful cursor.  Why?

I guess you missed the start of the thread. I want to drag around an  
image.

Besides, the OLPC default cursors all use ARGB, not 2 bit.

- Bert -