[xmonad] Getting back my Gnome mouse pointer

[Brent Yorgey]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> On 3/4/08, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> >
> > magnus:
> > >    On 3/4/08, Roman Cheplyaka <[1]roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
> > >
> > >      * Magnus Therning <[2]magnus at therning.org> [2008-03-04
> > 17:53:55+0000]
> >
> > >
> > >      > It seems that Xmonad is interferring with my Gnome mouse
> > >      theme.  Mostly I
> > >      > get the beautiful comix cursor, but in some areas (root window
> > and
> > >      certain
> > >      > widgets) I get a stock X left pointer.  How can I make sure
> > that I
> > >      have my
> > >      > comix cursors everywhere?
> > >      >
> > >      > /M
> > >
> > >      Try xsetroot.
> > >
> > >    Hmm, I was just assuming that 'xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr'
> > wouldn't
> > >    work, but it did.  Should really learn to try things before
> > complaining.
> > >    Not really sure why this happens though, all the other comix
> > cursors get
> > >    set just fine, only left_ptr that's ugly after logging in.
> > >
> > >    Well, I'm modifying my .xinitrc right after sending this email.
> >
> >
> > Yep, that's the trick,
> >
> >
> > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Setting_the_X_cursor
>
>
> Well, that didn't quite do the trick since Debian doesn't use ~/.xinitrc
> and sticking it in ~/.xsessionrc didn't have any effect at all.  Neither did
> sticking it in ~/.gnomerc.  So, does someone out there know how to get
> 'xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr' to be automatically executed on login on
> the combination Debian/Gnome/Xmonad?
>

Did you try '~/.xsession' rather than '~/.xsessionrc'?

-Brent
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