[xmonad] Getting back my Gnome mouse pointer

[Magnus Therning]

On 3/5/08, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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'?
>

I tried putting the following in .xsession:

xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
x-session-manager

but no success.  It didn't work to reverse the lines either.

I switched to using xmonad by creating a ~/.gnomerc:

export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/xmonad

That was rather elegant I thought, but this business with the cursor is
starting to irritate me.

/M
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