From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16855 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2003 20:42:42 -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 16848 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 20:42:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pqorexmain.powerquest.pq) (216.10.207.201) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 20:42:41 -0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Default Mouse Pointer is Wrong Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:42:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Cary Jamison" To: X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 List-Id: "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. >=20 > Ah ha, that did the trick. My apologies, I didn't even notice the > suggestion when I searched for it. -.-;; >=20 > 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. 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. My $.02 Cary