I just updated from SuSE 8.2 to 9.1. Things went relatively well for the most part, but there is one last annoyance that I'm trying to fix. Before, using ctwm as my window manager, I would have just a black arrow pointer over nearly all of the screen. After the upgrade, I have the black arrow on the root window, a whitish 3D looking pointer over most windows and the goofy hand with elongated index finger over my workspace manager. And when the system is working on something, I get the spinning clock pointer icon. Where can I change these settings? I don't like them, I prefer my plain black arrow, or black X or anything consistent. If anyone knows where I can fix this problem, please point me in the right direction. Thanks! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 09:38 pm, Michael George wrote:
I just updated from SuSE 8.2 to 9.1. Things went relatively well for the most part, but there is one last annoyance that I'm trying to fix.
Before, using ctwm as my window manager, I would have just a black arrow pointer over nearly all of the screen. After the upgrade, I have the black arrow on the root window, a whitish 3D looking pointer over most windows and the goofy hand with elongated index finger over my workspace manager. And when the system is working on something, I get the spinning clock pointer icon.
Where can I change these settings? I don't like them, I prefer my plain black arrow, or black X or anything consistent.
If anyone knows where I can fix this problem, please point me in the right direction. Thanks!
-- -M
There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
That's changed in the Control Center Mike. You should have several to choose from there. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:36:11PM -0400, BandiPat wrote:
I just updated from SuSE 8.2 to 9.1. Things went relatively well for the most part, but there is one last annoyance that I'm trying to fix.
Before, using ctwm as my window manager, I would have just a black arrow pointer over nearly all of the screen. After the upgrade, I have the black arrow on the root window, a whitish 3D looking pointer over most windows and the goofy hand with elongated index finger over my workspace manager. And when the system is working on something, I get the spinning clock pointer icon.
Where can I change these settings? I don't like them, I prefer my plain black arrow, or black X or anything consistent.
If anyone knows where I can fix this problem, please point me in the right direction. Thanks!
That's changed in the Control Center Mike. You should have several to choose from there.
Do you mean the YaST2 control center? Where is the option for that? If you mean a KDE or GNOME control center, would that have an effect in my ctwm window manager? If so, which control center would it be? I see gnome-control-center on my system... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
On Thursday 08 July 2004 08:05 am, Michael George wrote: [...]
That's changed in the Control Center Mike. You should have several to choose from there.
Do you mean the YaST2 control center? Where is the option for that?
If you mean a KDE or GNOME control center, would that have an effect in my ctwm window manager? If so, which control center would it be? I see gnome-control-center on my system...
Sorry Mike, it's the KDE control center I was thinking about. You'll find it under Peripherals>Mouse then Cursor theme tab. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
On Thursday 08 July 2004 15:34, BandiPat wrote:
On Thursday 08 July 2004 08:05 am, Michael George wrote: [...]
That's changed in the Control Center Mike. You should have several to choose from there.
Do you mean the YaST2 control center? Where is the option for that?
If you mean a KDE or GNOME control center, would that have an effect in my ctwm window manager? If so, which control center would it be? I see gnome-control-center on my system...
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Sorry Mike, it's the KDE control center I was thinking about. You'll find it under Peripherals>Mouse then Cursor theme tab.
But he's talking about a ctwm windowmanager. Cheers, Leen
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:34:53AM -0400, BandiPat wrote:
On Thursday 08 July 2004 08:05 am, Michael George wrote: [...]
That's changed in the Control Center Mike. You should have several to choose from there.
Do you mean the YaST2 control center? Where is the option for that?
If you mean a KDE or GNOME control center, would that have an effect in my ctwm window manager? If so, which control center would it be? I see gnome-control-center on my system...
Sorry Mike, it's the KDE control center I was thinking about. You'll find it under Peripherals>Mouse then Cursor theme tab.
Okay, thanks. I don't have time to look right now, but I'll shake down my system to see where that is... If you know the executable name (I'm a CLI-er) off-hand, lemme know, eh? Thanks -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
On Thursday 08 July 2004 03:36, BandiPat wrote:
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 09:38 pm, Michael George wrote:
I have the black arrow on the root window, a whitish 3D looking pointer over most windows and the goofy hand with elongated index finger over my workspace manager. And when the system is working on something, I get the spinning clock pointer icon.
Where can I change these settings? I don't like them, I prefer my plain black arrow, or black X or anything consistent.
That's changed in the Control Center Mike. You should have several to choose from there.
Sorry, as usual I'm several steps behind. OK so Michael uses CTWM so the advice above wasn't right. Still, I use KDE and I'd like to have a crosshair, say, instead of an arrow for a mouse pointer. I don't see any way of setting that in control centre... or perhaps I'm missing something?? /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager has the following lines: ## Description: default mouse cursor theme # # Name of mouse cursor theme for X11. Possible themes can be found # in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/ # X_MOUSE_CURSOR="blueprint-cursor-theme" Going to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/blueprint-cursor-theme/cursors I see "crosshair" and think I might be on the right track. But here I get (inevitably) stuck. I cannot view any of them, even with the gimp. And I'm not sure how exactly to edit the file to achieve what I want. Going to yast/system/desktop/X-MOUSE_CURSOR gives me the option of changing from blueprint-cursor-theme but no alternatives in the drop-down menu; should I enter "crosshair" here perhaps?? Or possibly blueprint-cursor-theme/cursors/crosshair <because that is the correct path> ?? By now I've had a couple of cold ones and am probably best off not doing this, but any comments will be viewed with interest tomorrow. Nothing can dent my good cheer tonight, having followed the thread some weeks ago about red-carpet (Anders, Bruce et al) I finally managed to make it work this evening and updated my system. Yay 8)
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:38:50PM -0400, Michael George wrote:
I just updated from SuSE 8.2 to 9.1. Things went relatively well for the most part, but there is one last annoyance that I'm trying to fix.
Before, using ctwm as my window manager, I would have just a black arrow pointer over nearly all of the screen. After the upgrade, I have the black arrow on the root window, a whitish 3D looking pointer over most windows and the goofy hand with elongated index finger over my workspace manager. And when the system is working on something, I get the spinning clock pointer icon.
Where can I change these settings? I don't like them, I prefer my plain black arrow, or black X or anything consistent.
If anyone knows where I can fix this problem, please point me in the right direction. Thanks!
I found it. It's a setting in the system configuration stuff for SuSE. From the YaST2 -> System -> /etc/sysconfig Editor app, I selected Desktop -> X_MOUSE_CURSOR and cleared the entry (default). After restarting X, I have my familiar and borind icons back again. Thanks to all who offered help! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
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