Re: Default Mouse Pointer is Wrong

["Yadin Y. Goldschmidt" <yadin at pitt dot edu>]

Hi,
Colin Harrison suggested long time ago to add the following line to the end
of your startxwin.bat file:
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -fg white -bg black
This will change the default mouse from an x to a white arrow.

An unrelated question to harold Hunt:
Why if one uses mwm as the window manager and one invokes xclock it does not
have a frame and can't be moved?
xterm, rxvt, xeyes, etc all have frames and can be moved.

"Ricky Boone" <whiplash@planetfurry.com> wrote in message
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> This may just be an idiotic question, but I couldn't seem to find an
> answer in the archives.
>
> I am trying to connect to remote applications in X (in -multiwindow
> mode) through ssh on cygwin.  When I open the remote application, the
> default mouse pointer (cursor, whatever) is an 'X'.  Some special areas
> in the application, such as text fields, change the cursor successfully
> to a text selection pointer, but the 'X' pointer remains the default
> nearly everywhere else.
>
> Previously I had been using the default window manager with Cygwin by
> running startx, then remoting inside of it.  That was a little
> roundabout, but it worked.  All cursors and pointers looked okay.
>
> I've just done a complete reinstall of Cygwin on my WinXP box, since I
> thought perhaps either something was screwed up with the previous
> installation, or something new had fixed the problem.  The remote system
> I'm connecting to is Fedora Core Test 3 running the latest packages,
> though I'm willing to bet if I find another machine to test this on it
> will do the same; it's got to be something on my end, whether it's a
> misconfiguration or something I'm forgetting to do.
>
> Here's a quick example of exactly what I'm doing:
>
> * Open Cygwin shell (cygwin.bat)
> * startxwin.sh
> * Inside the xterm window:  ssh -XC me@somebox.domain.tld
> * Once logged into remote box:  evolution &
> * Everything loads okay, but mouse pointer is an 'X' instead of the
> usual Windows arrow, or the default pointer on the remote box.
>
> Any ideas?  :)
>
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> Ricky Boone <whiplash@planetfurry.com>
> Planetfurry.com
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