So,

A lot of people call X 'bloated' and 'old' [1], without really grokking how
incredible the architecture really is.

Jim Gettys did a talk a while back about the history of X, and why it has
been held back by a lengthy 'dark age' (blame the proprietary UNIX vendors
who were not innovating on the desktop).

So, for everyone wondering where their pretty mouse cursors had got to:

  http://carbon.hemmet.chalmers.se/Pictures/xcursor.png

Coming soon - rock!

- Jeff

[1] 'bloated' X runs on the tiniest of PDAs and watches, and ran on machines
far less powerful than our current ones for many years. :-)

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