14 Sep
2009
14 Sep
'09
9:57 p.m.
2009/9/14 Andres Salomon
Sigh. Care to point me at the spec that states that the window manager MUST NOT set the default cursor?
The cursors are set by the XClient, because, as so many people fail to understand, they're a property of the XServer. Guess what a window manager is? Just another XClient. If you do something like: xsetroot -cursor foo That's setting it for the root-window -- which most WM's will be controlling anyway. If that's not set then it will use whatever the default one is set on the XServer, although most distros have a means to set this globally (c.f. in Debian with update-alternatives.) -- Thomas Adam