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Chrome/Chromium's EXO Now Supports Hardware Cursors

Written by Michael Larabel in Google on 1 February 2017 at 06:14 AM EST. 8 Comments

Thanks to David Reveman, there is now hardware cursor support for EXO.

EXO is the Chrome/Chromium component for implementing a display server on top of the Aura shell.

With this week's Git is support for hardware cursors in EXO. It's done by taking bitmap snapshots of the cursor surfaces, but Reveman notes could be improved by using a GpuMemoryBuffer snapshot for platforms supporting Ozone-GBM. Details here.

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