I have made a number of changes to the cursor selection script in the 
cursor_themes package, and would like some more people to test. I have 
some things to do still:
-Use ~/.Xresources instead of ~/.icons/default/index.theme and see how 
well that works
-Check for cursors in ~/.icons/default and move them if necessary 
(dependant on X behaviour regarding above).

I have implemented (optional) WM restarting for KDE, WindowMaker and 
Metacity/GNOME (I assume GNOME is running Metacity at present). It works 
for me. I have not implemented in the other WMs, since I have not found a 
way to detect if they are running on the current display. I could (in the 
case where I just need to send them a signal) do it regardless, but I 
would prefer to play it safe. I can detect the other WMs via shell 
variables (such as DESKTOP=kde), but it seems many WMs don't (with 
Metacity I actually test a GNOME-specific variable, and hope ;-)).

Any ideas for detecting more WMs would be happily accepted.

Finally, I want to remove the requires on Xdialog, since I use kdialog or 
gdialog if they are available and an appropriate WM is running. But I 
don't want to require kdebase (kdialog) or gnome-utils (gdialog). Is there 
any way to change this, or should we have kdebase, gnome-utils, cdialog 
and Xdialog all have virtual provides? (Of course, there are issues that 
kdialog is not totally compatible with the cdialog arguments).

Regards,
Buchan

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