Martin Visser wrote:

> The very old magic for this used to be edit the appropriate file in
> /etc/X11/app-defaults
> 
> for instance the following will change the default cursor when you hover
> over a running instance of "xclock"
> 
> echo 'XClock.*cursor: iron_cross' >> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XClock

Wow, thats pretty cool. 

Unfortunately, it doesn't work on GTK+ applications because GTK+
doesn't uses X resources at all.

> Regards, Martin (who last did play with core X11 application programming
> decades ago)

Erik, who last did core X11 hacking yesterday :-).

Erik
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