Yesterday at 5:17pm, Jeff Raven wrote:
> Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
>
> > (...)
> >
> > 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?
some people would like to be able to call "xsetroot -cursor_name .." from
~/.xinitrc, before exec'ing Blackbox, like:
xsetroot -cursor_name blabla
exec blackbox
But blackbox changes cursor again. So suggestions were made like this:
sleep 5 && exec xsetroot -cursor_name top_left_arrow &
exec blackbox
to have the cursor changed _after_ blackbox sets the default left_ptr
cursor.
Otherwise you would have to go through al your style files. (You don't
always start a blackbox session with the same style-file.)
Cheers/wilbert
