On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:29:35 +0000
Joachim Breitner
Hi,
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 16:06 -0400 schrieb Andres Salomon:
I'm not sure what you mean here. Are people really setting cursors via xsetroot, and feel strongly about it? Is setting a string in your .xinitrc really what people consider "the natural way" to configure pointers (versus a GUI app like gnome-appearance-properties)? I should point out that in a lot of instances, it's not even clear where such a thing would be set. For example, while 'startx' on my debian system allows me to run xsetroot via ~/.xinitrc, 'nodm' completely ignores .xinitrc (making cursor override documentation such as the stuff at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmonad pretty useless).
Sessions under nodm can be configured in ~/.xsession, which replace your DE. You can of course source .xinitrc from there.
Oh? I haven't been able to get that to work; it just causes nodm to keep restarting X, with .xsession-errors reporting "X session started for dilinger at $timestamp". Note that I also opened up a bug against nodm for not setting the default cursor.. I can certainly supply a patch for that as well. ;) http://bugs.debian.org/546387
(This does not imply an opinion about the OP’s patch, I don’t have one there :-))
Greetings, Joachim