Monday, March 12, 2012

Change the X mouse pointer to an arrow

In my Debian installation, the mouse pointer is an arrow. In the second X server I use on Ubuntu however, the mouse pointer is the default x shape which I don't like. Fortunately, adding this one line to .stumpwmrc can fix this.
(run-shell-command "xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr")
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