On Mar 4, 2008, at 13:01 , Magnus Therning wrote:
Try xsetroot.
Hmm, I was just assuming that 'xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr' wouldn't work, but it did. Should really learn to try things before complaining. Not really sure why this happens though, all the other comix cursors get set just fine, only left_ptr that's ugly after logging in.
Most of the GNOME (and KDE) substitute cursors are (possibly animated) pixmap replacements for normal bitmap cursors, and can't be managed by the server directly but are managed on the fly by looking at the server-level cursor that has been requested; the substitution is based on the standard cursor name, so you need to set the root window (== system default) cursor to the expected left_ptr for the default substitute cursor to be recognized and installed. (An X11 extension to support animated pixmap cursors directly would obviate this but doesn't seem to be in the works.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH