[Vm-dev] [Cuis-dev] Larger mouse pointers on QHD screen?

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Mon Sep 2 21:08:06 UTC 2019


Hi all,
I just recompiled and tested cog branch head and confirm that neither 64
nor 32bits linux spur VM do honour the large cursor request.
The best would be to open an issue on
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.


Le lun. 2 sept. 2019 à 17:23, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> a écrit :

>
> Reported on Cuis, copying to vm-dev for follow-up. Replies should go to
> vm-dev.
>
> Large cursor support is reported to be not working on 64-bit Linux VMs.
> On Squeak, test this by enabling the "Use bigger mouse cursors" preference.
>
> This is probably a build configuration issue. On a 64-bit interpreter VM
> on Linux, larger cursors work as expected if and only if the xrender
> development library is present in the build, e.g.
>
>     $ sudo apt-get install libxrender-dev
>
> My memory jogger was this:
>
>   Name: VMMaker-dtl.298
>   Author: dtl
>   Time: 12 February 2013, 7:34:34.873 pm
>   UUID: dc5ab81f-c19f-4416-ae5e-edb2909e3eb0
>   Ancestors: VMMaker-dtl.297
>
>   VMMaker 4.10.11
>
>   Enable large cursor support in the 64-bit image. Previous concern about
>   bitmap conversion is apparently no longer relevant, as #primitiveBeCursor
>   works properly on the 64-bit image (but tested only on little-endian).
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 07:50:50AM -0300, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
> > You can (and should) report the issue in vm-dev.
> >
> > Still, look at #needsToBeDrawn and friends. In a few hours of hacking,
> > you can fix it in the image (even if you don't know much of the current
> > code).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > On 9/1/2019 10:48 AM, Steve Davies wrote:
> > >Hi Juan,
> > >
> > >Thanks for coming back to me.  Forgot to say that its a Linux
> > >environment so I guess I guess I'm not going to get help from the vm.
> > >
> > >Steve
> > >
> > >
> > >On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 at 15:44, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org
> > ><mailto:juan at jvuletich.org>> wrote:
> > >
> > >    On 9/1/2019 9:41 AM, Steve Davies via Cuis-dev wrote:
> > >    > Hi,
> > >    >
> > >    > I use a very lovely Dell 9360 which has a QHD screen.
> > >    >
> > >    > Its easy to set fonts to get a legible screen, but is there
> > >    anything I
> > >    > can do to get a mouse pointer that isn't tiny?
> > >    >
> > >    > Thanks,
> > >    > Steve
> > >    >
> > >    Hi Steve,
> > >
> > >    That depends on whether the VM has support for larger mouse
> pointers.
> > >    For example, selecting 'Huge Fonts' sets up larger mouse pointers
> > >    on Mac
> > >    OS and Windows, but not on Linux (Ubuntu), using the official 64 bit
> > >    VMs. I believe the Linux VM doesn't have support for that.
> > >
> > >    You could ask about this in the vm-dev mail list:
> > >    http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/vm-dev . As an
> > >    alternative, the hand could be drawn by Morphic and not by the OS.
> > >    See
> > >    #needsToBeDrawn.
> > >
> > >    Cheers,
> > >
> > >    --
> > >    Juan Vuletich
> > >    www.cuis-smalltalk.org <http://www.cuis-smalltalk.org>
> > >    https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
> > >    https://github.com/jvuletich
> > >    https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-vuletich-75611b3
> > >    @JuanVuletich
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >Steve Davies: Technical Director, Connection Telecom (Pty) Ltd
> > >Email is preferred, but: Phone: 0878200200
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Juan Vuletich
> > www.cuis-smalltalk.org
> > https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
> > https://github.com/jvuletich
> > https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-vuletich-75611b3
> > @JuanVuletich
> >
>
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