On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:55:20PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
You can always set the cursor from your .xsession or .xinitrc using xsetroot(1) before starting xmonad (or any other window manager).
Yep, and some display managers also set it. However, my opinion is that xmonad should be setting it. If people feel differently, I'd like to hear why.
Well, because you can set it elsewhere, and some people may want to use another cursor. The natural way to do so is to configure your X startup scripts, because it's WM independent. Why add code to xmonad when it's not necessary? Personally, I'm sometimes playing with and comparing different WMs (stuff like xmonad, scrotwm, ratpoison), and I'm *used* to get the cursor I like without tweaking the WM configuration first. Ciao, Kili