Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
>
> Wednesday at 8:15pm, jim mumbled:
>
> > Howdy folks,
> >
> > Does anyone else here follow alt.blackbox.planned.featurebloat?
> >
> > Well, I've come to accept that we'll soon have random on-the-fly theme
> > changes and, of course, animated pixmap window decorations. Life
> > would be awfully dull without them. And why settle for xearth when
> > you can have a 3-D image generated from a real-time connection with
> > the space shuttle?
>
> hahahaah! Cool idea!
>
> > So, I'm going on strike against window managers. Here's my .xinitrc file:
> >
> > xset m 4 2
> > xsetroot -gray
> > exec bbrun
> > exit ()
>
> its cool. setup some aliases for geometry and you're on! ;)
> (bbrun has a shell? dunno)
>
> About Cursor:
>
> When i ran bb for the 1st time (0.28.x) i loved the small cursor arrow
> (left_ptr). I did'nt figure out then how to change cursor myself, so with
> other wms sometimes i was stuck with the big X cursor.
>
> Some time ago someone suggested it is not the wm's job to change
> cursor. It's a hassle to want another cursor as it is now.
>
> Two ideas:
> 1. just remove blackbox's setting of the default cursor.
> user has to use xsetroot for this from its .xinitrc. New users
> however will possibly have some poking around before they find
> this.
>
> 2. Make a .blackboxrc resource called *cursorName that defaults to
> "left_ptr". When changed into "NONE" or "NULL" or "-" or whatever
> Blackbox will not touch the cursor.
>
> 3. Do nothing and leave it as it is now. BEST option, actually.
>
> ;) ...horrible counting....
>
> IMHO Blackbox should stay a `blackbox' (i.e. a simple single executable
> that just does everything needed and nothing more or less. K.I.S.S.)
Hmm. OK, I must not have been paying too much attention when all
this started, but what exactly is the problem? If you want a different
default cursor, why not just use 'xsetroot -cursor_name blah' as part
of your rootCommand in your style? Recent Blackbox's should handle
something like
rootCommand: bsetroot -solid Blue; xsetroot -cursor_name ll_angle
with no problem. Use -cursor if you want to use a custom cursor.
Or is there something else wrong?
Jeff Raven
