Hi, I chatted briefly with nomeata yesterday and the consesus was that my problem is not an app issue but instead something in my system or build of xmonad. the problem: some apps, a blank workspace and the border around windows all show the default "X" mouse cursor. This shows up in a variety of apps: gnucash, xpdf, xvidtune*, Xdialog**. There are probably others, but I haven't gone through the whole list. Other apps work just fine: urxvt and other terminals show the usual text-insertion cursor. firefox/iceweasel show an arrow or insertion cursor as expected and so forth. I'm not really sure where to go from here in terms of trouble shooting this, but I wonder if I'm missing some -dev package that supports this but doesn't cause a configure failure? I don't know I'm running xmonad 0.4 built from source (not nomeata's .debs) on up-to-date debian sid. I've installed and tried a couple different mouse themes just to see if that was the problem and it didn't help. * xvidtune is interesting. It shows the "X" cursor everywhere but in the slide bars. There it shows the <=> cursor. ** Xdialog is interesting too. If I run just Xdialog with no arguments, it puts up a dialog with usage information. That dialog shows the insertion cursor when over the text portion of the window but shows the "X" when over the buttons or border... Any suggestions about where to look are appreciated. A