Mouse Shadow?

[senne]

I have an iMac 700Mhz G3 (special edition) and i don't have the shadow of my mouse.. I have Mac OS 10.2.1. Does anybody know how to "activate" the shadow somehow?



senne.

[twister]

I though it had to do if QE was enabled. I have it at home with my PowerBook 667 but not at work with a G4 450.

Twister

[senne]

Yes, i don't have QE... But does a mouse-shadow uses a lot of the CPU? Or doesn't have it to do anything with that?



senne.

[unlearnthetruth]

Mouse shadow? are we talking about the 3 pixel grey "shadow" around the curser that i can barely see, or am i missing something?

i'm so confused!

[senne]

Originally posted by unlearnthetruth
Mouse shadow? are we talking about the 3 pixel grey "shadow" around the curser that i can barely see, or am i missing something?

i'm so confused!

Yes

I love it! But i don't have it... pff



senne.

[a2daj]

The mouse shadow has nothing to do with QE. I have two Macs without QE that both have the mouse shadow. I have two other Macs with QE and they also both have the mouse shadow.

[Rhino_G3]

I don't have the shadow. running on a B&W G3 with stock rage 128.

I was under the impression that it was a QE enabled trait.

[LordOphidian]

I was also under the impression that its a QE enabled "feature".

I would think it would be slow on non QE systems because it removes the cursor drawing from the graphics card (where it normally lives) becuase Quartz has to calculate all the transarancy for the shadow for every move of the mouse. With QE, this is still done in the graphics card.

What non-QE macs have the shadow anyway? It would be interesting to find out the specs of them.