Re: [xmonad] Getting back my Gnome mouse pointer

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

On 3/4/08, Don Stewart wrote:

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magnus:

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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]

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> 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

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certain > widgets) I get a stock X left pointer. How can I make sure

that I

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have my > comix cursors everywhere? > > /M

Try xsetroot.

Hmm, I was just assuming that 'xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr'

wouldn't

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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?

Did you try '~/.xsession' rather than '~/.xsessionrc'? -Brent