[xmonad] Re: [PATCH] XMonad: set the default root cursor to XC_left_ptr

[Andres Salomon]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:29:35 +0000
Joachim Breitner
<mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:

> 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
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