Re: Very Nasty Gnome bug

[William R Pentney <pentney cse Buffalo EDU>]

On Mon, 31 May 1999, Vidiot wrote:
> 2) The damn X cursor.  If I clear out all the .gnome directories and the
>    .enlightenment directory, I can get gnome to change from the X cursor to
>    a real pointer cursor.  Of course, that mean reconfiguring gnome and
>    enlightenment.  A real pain-in-the-ass.  After I got the pointer cursor
>    back, it was promptly broken when I changed enlightenment to use iCE
>    borders and saved the currect session.  Great, that was a real waste of
>    time.  I just changed the theme (why is it called themes,when it really
>    is borders?) to Clean Big, the cursor was changed to a pointer.  I changed
>    back to icE and it is still a pointer.  It also changed to background
>    color and I didn't tell it to do that.  The question is what will happen
>    when I get out of gnome and back in.  Will the cursor still be wrong?

I think it was agreed that the X cursor in the iCE theme is a
legitimate bug. When I used GNOME with IceWM instead of Enlightenment,
it's a pointer.

- Bill