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Bug 2355

Summary: SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_WAITARROW May Not Work Properly
Product: SDL Reporter: N. de Jonge <mail>
Component: videoAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED ABANDONED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: icculus
Version: 2.0.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Attachments: WAITARROW in Xfce

Description N. de Jonge 2014-01-19 19:43:54 UTC 
There may be a problem with cursor type SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_WAITARROW. In SDL_mouse.h it says:
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SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_WAITARROW, /**< Small wait cursor (or Wait if not available) */
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But it may be falling back to SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_WAIT even on systems where SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_WAITARROW is available.

When I run this sample code http://pastebin.com/uPx6DZs8 I see WAIT instead of WAITARROW even though in my Xfce setup both are available:
http://i.imgur.com/mchaUcH.png
Mirror: http://s2.postimg.org/4xbz1oant/Xfce.png
From what I can tell, the DMZ (White) theme is the same as the Default theme since /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme says...
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[Icon Theme]
Inherits=DMZ-White
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... but just to be sure I selected DMZ (White). That theme has both WAIT and WAITARROW; GIMP can open them:
/usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/left_ptr_watch
/usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/watch

I asked someone in #SDL@FreeNode to run my code and he ran into the same thing.
Comment 1 N. de Jonge 2014-01-19 21:11:11 UTC 
Created attachment 1526 [details]
WAITARROW in Xfce

Just to show that WAITARROW is available in (my) Xfce.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2014-02-22 22:45:07 UTC 
The problem is that we do this at the X11 level, so we have code that does this...

    case SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_WAIT:      shape = XC_watch; break;
    case SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_WAITARROW: shape = XC_watch; break;

...which is why you get the same result for both.

We only go with the system cursors, built into the X server, even if the X11 window manager has more in some form, so here are the available X11 options:

    http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/appendix/b/

I'm not familiar enough with this part of X11 to understand if accessing the Xfce cursors are something we can do (and do reasonably), though, but I suspect this is something we can't fix.

--ryan.
Comment 3 Ryan C. Gordon 2018-08-06 21:20:22 UTC 
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--ryan.