On 3/4/08, Don Stewart
magnus:
On 3/4/08, Roman Cheplyaka <[1]roma@ro-che.info> wrote:
* Magnus Therning <[2]magnus@therning.org> [2008-03-04 17:53:55+0000]
> It seems that Xmonad is interferring with my Gnome mouse theme. Mostly I > get the beautiful comix cursor, but in some areas (root window
and
certain > widgets) I get a stock X left pointer. How can I make sure that
I
have my > comix cursors everywhere? > > /M
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.
Well, I'm modifying my .xinitrc right after sending this email.
Yep, that's the trick,
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Setting_the...
Well, that didn't quite do the trick since Debian doesn't use ~/.xinitrc and sticking it in ~/.xsessionrc didn't have any effect at all. Neither did sticking it in ~/.gnomerc. So, does someone out there know how to get 'xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr' to be automatically executed on login on the combination Debian/Gnome/Xmonad? /M