Re: grabbing the mouse cursor

Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Indy wrote:
>
>> I'm making a radically advanced help system for linux.
>> Is there a way to grab the current mouse cursor icon?  (either by id 
>> or picture)   Or grab an entire screenshot with the current mouse 
>> pointer (hourglass, pointer, etc.)?
>
>
> Only via the "XFixes" extension.
>
Thanks my friend!  I installed X.org's x window system and 
XFixesGetCursorImage does what I want.  You'll see me again in five 
years. :)