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Re: text cursor?

From Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.windows.x
Subject Re: text cursor?
Date 2024-01-10 22:27 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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I originally asked:
>> What's X11's name for the "text cursor" ( ][ ), or is there one?
>> I read through cursorfont.h, but none of the names struck me as
>> describing that cursor.

Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> kindly replied:
> I believe that the I-beam cursor is named XC_xterm in cursorfont.h

So that's where it's hiding.  :)

> See https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/xlib-reference-manual/9780937175262/17_appendix-i.html
> beside the watch, in the last row

What a useful web page.  Thanks!
 -WBE

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