Re: Changing the X cursor

Andrew Sullivan (asullivan@sprint.ca)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:06:29 -0500 (EST) 

I don't know that it's really FAQ material; it's the first time I've ever
run into the question, & so doesn't meet the "F" part.

Is there any demand for an "AQ" (pron. "ack!") file?  This could be done
as a FAQ-o-matic, which would be less good than a truly excellent
natural-language search engine on the ML archives, but might be better
than the current grep-based search engine.  With no authority control in
subjects (this is a jargony way of talking about a simple problem: some
say X-Window, some say X, and some say X Windowing System; but we need,
for efficiency we need to index only one of these, and cross-index the
others.  I spend too much time in libraries now, sorry), a browseable
FAQ-o-matic, which is basically a cross-reference to the ML archive, might
be nice.  Is there any reason to try?

A

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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 youngej@magpage.com wrote:

> Problem solved.  Thanks for the response.  Looks as good
> as it works now  ;-)
> 
> This might be FAQ material.  It isn't obvious (at least it
> wasn't to me).  Even after I went back and reviewed all
> available material I only found a hint by:
>   cd /usr/share/afterstep
>   rgrep cursor.xbm *
> 
> It would be a lot more obvious in the look.* files.  
> Just a thought.
> 
> Thanks again...
> 
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is set in the feel file (which is pretty odd, I admit, since it's
> > obviously related to how things look).
> > 
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> > Andrew Sullivan | asullivan@sprint.ca (home)| sullivana@bpl.on.ca (work)
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> > What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
> >                                 --seen on a t-shirt from NPR
> > 
> > On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 youngej@magpage.com wrote:
> > 
> > > I am running AfterStep-1.7.150-1 on RH6.0.  I installed
> > > it using a Freshmeat rpm.  It is working well for me.
> > >
> > > I would like to change the X cursor used with AfterStep.
> > > The default cursor is a black arrow bordered by white.
> > > I am interested in a cursor that looks like:
> > >   /usr/share/afterstep/desktop/cursors/cursor.xbm
> > >
> > > I can get the cursor to change in the background by using:
> > >   xsetroot -cursor ~/cursor.xbm  ~/cursor.xbm.mask
> > > But the cursor is changed back to the default AfterStep
> > > cursor when over the wharf, winlist, or most applications.
> > >
> > > I have read through much doc without finding the key to
> > > configure this.  In desperation I am turning to this
> > > mailing list.
> > >
> > > Is this possible?  Regards and TIA...
> > >
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