Re: Display busy cursor?

[Adam Fedor]

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 02:50 AM, Björn Giesler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm hacking on GNUtooth a bit and find that I'd like to display a 
> "busy"
> cursor. Browsing through the headers and the documentation doesn't
> reveal anything; maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. However,
> MacOS X seems to display the busy cursor automatically if it detects
> that an application isn't responding to events. Does anyone know how it
> does that? Should GNUstep do the same?

I don't know how MacOSX does it, but in X it's probably the window 
manager's responsibility. It could be implemented by the ping 
(_NET_WM_PING) protocol described by EWMH protocol (GNUstep doesn't 
implement this, but it could easily).