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From: ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Another tiny R5 wish
Message-ID: <437@bohra.cpg.oz>
Date: 2 Aug 90 01:28:57 GMT
References: <421@bohra.cpg.oz> <1990Jul30.220835.16776@eng.umd.edu> <1990Jul31.162229.4254@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Organization: Computer Power Group, Melb, Australia
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In article <1990Jul31.162229.4254@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
> In article <421@bohra.cpg.oz> ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt) writes:
>>I'd like to see something which allows Motif to tell the server to
>>flash the cursor without having to do it all itself.
>
> I do agree with this, although I think it should be part of R5, not Motif.

So do I. Isn't that exactly what I said? I want cursor-flashing reduced
from pages of Motif code to a few bits in X11R5 directing the hardware,
and without an X event every 500 milliseconds.

The subject is 'R5 wish', after all ...


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Esmond Pitt, Computer Power Group
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