From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19788 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2003 14:37:36 -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 19775 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 14:37:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 14:37:34 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHOms-0008Ol-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:37:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHOmr-0008Od-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:37:33 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHOmr-0004FU-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:37:33 +0100 From: "Yadin Y. Goldschmidt" Subject: Re: Default Mouse Pointer is Wrong Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:37:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <1068040438.32389.16.camel@whiplash.planetfurry.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 List-Id: Hi, 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. An unrelated question to harold Hunt: Why if one uses mwm as the window manager and one invokes xclock it does not have a frame and can't be moved? xterm, rxvt, xeyes, etc all have frames and can be moved. "Ricky Boone" wrote in message news:1068040438.32389.16.camel@whiplash.planetfurry.com... > This may just be an idiotic question, but I couldn't seem to find an > answer in the archives. > > I am trying to connect to remote applications in X (in -multiwindow > mode) through ssh on cygwin. When I open the remote application, the > default mouse pointer (cursor, whatever) is an 'X'. Some special areas > in the application, such as text fields, change the cursor successfully > to a text selection pointer, but the 'X' pointer remains the default > nearly everywhere else. > > Previously I had been using the default window manager with Cygwin by > running startx, then remoting inside of it. That was a little > roundabout, but it worked. All cursors and pointers looked okay. > > I've just done a complete reinstall of Cygwin on my WinXP box, since I > thought perhaps either something was screwed up with the previous > installation, or something new had fixed the problem. The remote system > I'm connecting to is Fedora Core Test 3 running the latest packages, > though I'm willing to bet if I find another machine to test this on it > will do the same; it's got to be something on my end, whether it's a > misconfiguration or something I'm forgetting to do. > > Here's a quick example of exactly what I'm doing: > > * Open Cygwin shell (cygwin.bat) > * startxwin.sh > * Inside the xterm window: ssh -XC me@somebox.domain.tld > * Once logged into remote box: evolution & > * Everything loads okay, but mouse pointer is an 'X' instead of the > usual Windows arrow, or the default pointer on the remote box. > > Any ideas? :) > > -- > Ricky Boone > Planetfurry.com > >