Re: Very Nasty Gnome bug

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

You should be able to change the default cursor with the xsetroot command.
You would use it like this:

  xsetroot  -cursor cursor.xbm mask.xbm

Or, if you want to use one of the standard cursors,  use this:
  xsetroot -cursor_name cursorname

You can get more information on the xsetroot manual page.  Note that I
haven't tried this out with e, so YMMV.

James.

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On Sun, 30 May 1999, Vidiot wrote:

> While attempting to reset GNOME so that it doesn't use that damn X cursor, gnome
> managed to screw itself royally.
> 
> In order to see if the dredded X cursor was caused by a gnome config problem,
> I removed all of my home .gnome* directories.  That wasn't it.  Guess it must
> be an enlightment thing, so I'll have to blow away the .enlightenment
> directory next.  After reconfiguring the panel to put back the stuff that was
> removed :-(, I got out of gnome because of other stuff I was working on.
> When I restarted X, gnome complained about another panel running and did I
> still want to start it.  I said no.  Bad choice.  Now I had no panel at all.
> OK, so I'll just get out of gnome and restart it.
> 
> Here comes the gnome configuration fuckup...  if you have no panel, you have
> no way to log out of gnome.  No menu option with the middle or right buttons.
> No place at all in which the user can get out of gnome.  Oops, dumb, real
> dumb.  The default configuration of gnome MUST have another way to get out
> if the panel is not there, or a menu option to restart the panel.  Either
> way, the user is fucked.
> 
> If there is a way to get out (without doing ctl-alt-F1 and killing the jobs),
> I couldn't find it.  That means newbies to gnome aren't going to know how to
> either.  I'm a newbie to gnome and its many problems.
> 
> I'm almost ready to spend the time getting OpenWindows working again.  The
> main reason why...  I can't configure the desktop the way I want when it starts.
> With olvwm, I could tell it, via a couple of files, to start certain
> applications and position them in a particular virtual area of the desktop
> and exactly where within that virtual area.  Yes, you are supposed to be able
> to tell gnome to remember the locations when you log out of gnome.  I've done
> the Remember States->All Attributes for each of the applications, and did a
> save current setup when logging out.  But when I restart gnome, all of the
> applications pile into virtual area 0 and place themselves top center.  Not
> only were the applications not put back in the virtual area from whence they
> came, they weren't even placed in the right area of the virtual area.  This
> feature just plain does not work.  If a gnome programmer has gotten it to work,
> I'd sure like to know how and I'm sure every other user of gnome would like
> to know as well.
> 
> Any and all pointers to fixes are welcome.
> 
> MB
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