[xmonad] Re: [PATCH] XMonad: set the default root cursor to XC_left_ptr

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 16:06 -0400 schrieb Andres Salomon:
> I'm not sure what you mean here.  Are people really setting cursors via
> xsetroot, and feel strongly about it?  Is setting a string in
> your .xinitrc really what people consider "the natural way" to
> configure pointers (versus a GUI app like
> gnome-appearance-properties)?  I should point out that in a lot of
> instances, it's not even clear where such a thing would be set.  For
> example, while 'startx' on my debian system allows me to run xsetroot
> via ~/.xinitrc, 'nodm' completely ignores .xinitrc (making
> cursor override documentation such as the stuff at
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmonad pretty useless).

Sessions under nodm can be configured in ~/.xsession, which replace your
DE. You can of course source .xinitrc from there.

(This does not imply an opinion about the OP’s patch, I don’t have one
there :-))

Greetings,
Joachim
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