Excerpts from Lara Michaels's message of Sat Jan 16 10:55:05 -0700 2010:
Hi everyone,
I have followed the wiki instructions to setup xmonad on Gnome (Ubuntu 9.10)
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gnome
and it worked beautifully. Just one thing is wrong: the cursor is permanently in "busy" state. I have noticed that this only happens when I enable (and add to the gnome panel) xmonad log applet. Oddly, if I do "sudo killall Xorg" and start my session over the problem is gone.
I have seen others mention this problem
http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?s=60a2086ae873324dce1d75cbad6e5402&p=85 17408&postcount=10
but couldn't find any solution to it. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
For reference, how did you install the log applet and which version? What xmonad version are you using? Please attach or pastebin xmonad.hs. Finally, how is your gnome/xmonad integration set up? i.e. are you using a gnome session with just metacity/compiz replaced with xmonad so that all the other gnome services are running? Thanks for giving me motivation to finally install this applet and try it out. I created a brand new user to test this out with, since my karmic box has been dist-upgraded release by release for years instead of being a fresh install. Unfortunately with xmonad-0.9.1 I was not able to reproduce this problem using either the git version of the applet, or with the version 1.0 tarball reconfigured to use the proper karmic install locations. Hopefully with a little more info about your setup the next steps to troubleshoot this will be clear. Attached is the config I used (requires xmonad-0.9 or greater, and DBus package from hackage). I ran it in a full gnome-session with xmonad replacing metacity via gconftool. regards, -- wmw