On 22/04/10 00:28, Wirt Wolff wrote:

Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of Wed Apr 21 05:40:26 -0600 2010:

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Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of Tue Apr 20 11:22:51 -0600 2010:

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I'm logging in to my Gnome desktop using GDM. I configure the pointer via the Gnome configuration utilities. [..] Did you just upgrade to xmonad 0.9 or start using one of the desktop configs? In this case it seems likely the desktops startupHook is creating the problem. I'd try first with xmonad's startupHook cut down to `return ()' or `ewmhDesktopsStartupHook' as appropriate, then re-login.

It's been a while so I don't remember whether I noticed it after an upgrade. In any case I did what you suggested and it worked fine. It turns out that the gnomeConfig startupHook is defined as 'gnomeRegister >> startupHook desktopConfig' and desktopConfig in turn sets the pointer. I added a custom startupHook to my config like so: main = xmonad $ gnomeConfig { modMask = mod4Mask , workspaces = myWorkspaces , keys = myKeys , layoutHook = myLayoutHook , manageHook = myManageHook -- by default the Gnome Cfg uses the Desktop startupHook, but it screws with the pointer! , startupHook = gnomeRegister } That takes care of it. I'm tempted to raise a bug on the gnomeConfig, since it seems rather silly to have a basic Gnome configuration for Xmonad that screws with the mouse pointer like this :-) Thanks for your help! /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe