# update-alternatives --list x-cursor-theme only shows one cursor theme installed: /usr/share/icons/Industrial/cursor.theme. I think that this theme is the default Gnome cursor theme, because when I tried to remove it aptitude wanted to remove Gnome-desktop-environment as well.
Of course, what I wanted was NO cursor theme at all, only the default system cursor themes. So I removed both the "industrial" cursor theme and Gnome-desktop environment and thereby got what I wanted. Hooray! Previously I had removed the desktop-base package, which did not make any difference, at least to the login-manager and the cursor style. Since desktop-base is used by both KDE and Gnome I reinstalled it. In doing so aptitude also insisted in installing three other packages: kdebase-dbg, kdelibs-dbg and qt-x11-free-dbg. I am not sure what all these do, no harm, I hope. One thing that did appear was a blue icon on the panel which looks like a squashed half jelly bean. It is something called "SuperKarumba". Useful? Another discovery. Days ago I wanted to change my login manager from Gnome to KDE, but it did not work. This morning when I booted my desktop this morning to my amazement and surprise the KDE login manager appeared! I wonder what I had done in the meantime to deserve this prise. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]