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I believe the mouse cursor is still often a hardware sprite today.

• db48x 4y ago
  Almost 100% guaranteed, but it is still possible for the OS to be delayed in sending it the coordinates. Of course that means that the OS is badly written.
  • yamtaddle 4y ago
    By these standards, the only well-written operating systems I've ever seen are BeOS and QNX/Photon. Probably iOS (at least, older versions of it) deserves to be on the list, despite mouse use being atypical. Which... yeah, that actually might be true.
    • db48x 4y ago
      iOS is the odd one out, because user input has first priority. IIRC, it cannot even do network I/O if you are holding your finger on the screen; all interrupts except those from the touchscreen are disabled for the duration.
  • mijoharas 4y ago
    I can say for sure this is true on sway (wayland) because while messing around seeing if the proprietary nvidia driver finally works yet (when will I learn... for anyone curious nvidia is still nvidia) one of the things I had to do was manually disable hardware cursors.