On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:

On 3/4/08, Don Stewart <dons@galois.com> wrote:
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_X_cursor

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'?

I tried putting the following in .xsession:

xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
x-session-manager

but no success. It didn't work to reverse the lines either.

I switched to using xmonad by creating a ~/.gnomerc:

export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/xmonad

That was rather elegant I thought, but this business with the cursor is starting to irritate me.

/M