From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18376 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2003 20:48:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18369 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 20:48:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys02.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.102) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 20:48:24 -0000 Received: from office.ixn.com ([68.23.74.57] helo=msu.edu) by sys02.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.10 #3) (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) id 1AHUZj-0003Ji-00 for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:48:23 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA96216.70706@msu.edu> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:48:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Default Mouse Pointer is Wrong References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 List-Id: Cary Jamison wrote: > "Ricky Boone" wrote in message > news:<1068044377.32617.1.camel@whiplash.planetfurry.com>... > >>On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 09:37, Yadin Y. Goldschmidt wrote: >> >>>Colin Harrison suggested long time ago to add the following line to > > the end > >>>of your startxwin.bat file: >>>xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -fg white -bg black >>>This will change the default mouse from an x to a white arrow. >> >>Ah ha, that did the trick. My apologies, I didn't even notice the >>suggestion when I searched for it. -.-;; >> >>Thanks for the help. :) > > > I've noticed this too, but haven't complained about it. I didn't > realize the problem was specific to the -multiwindow window manager. This isn't a problem. It is "the way it works". > If this is true, than -multiwindow is not behaving as expected nor as > other window managers behave wrt default cursors. The xsetroot is a > work-around, but it seems to me this should be regarded as a bug in the > window manager. The 'X' should be the default cursor when over the root > window but an arrow when over an application window. Since -multiwindow > doesn't really have a visible root window, it seems like permanently > changing the default cursor to a pointer would be a good/quick solution. Fine. Run 'twm' as your window manager. Doesn't it do the same exact thing? That is the way that I have been reading the emails... if that is not the case, then could somebody please describe this better.? The solution you propose is not trivial. That is why this is "the way it works" and not a bug. I'm sure that upon further inspection you would figure out that trying to change this policy would result in the creation of a mouse-cursor over-riding policy that is a lot more complicated than what you think it would be. I'm pretty sure that it would be complicated enough that it isn't worth looking into. Of course, feel free to code me into submission. Harold