On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 17:04:19 +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> During periods of boredom I sometimes check on the current status of
> desktop environments (I myself have been an icon-less fvwm man from day
> 1), so for giggles I installed the package gnome-desktop-environment and
> played a bit with it.
>
> Getting back to serious things I started my usual fvwm environment but
> noticed that the cursors had changed. This doesn't bother me much, but
> one CAD application that I frequently use normally sets the cursor to a
> cross-like shape that faciliates aiming with pixel precision. I think
> this is one of the starndard X cursors. But now the cursor is a chubby,
> opaque cross that isn't well suited to this application.
>
> I shredded everything that started with .gnome in my home directory and
> restarted X, but the cursors retained theor gnomish look. So it seems
> that gnome-desktop (or rather, some package that it depends on) messes
> with the cursors on a system level.
>
> This is not good, as it changes the behavior on the system even for
> users that don't want to have anything to do with gnome. Does anybody
> have an idea who changes the cursors and how these changes can be
> restricted to gnome sessions only?
Try to run (as root)
update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
and select
/etc/X11/cursors/core.theme
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Regards,
Florian
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