Re: FVWM: lefty cursors

From: Xris Laas <chrisl_at_cybercom.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 16:05:33 -0500 (EST)

On 4 Mar, Mark Borges wrote:
> is there a simple way (in fvwm-2.0.45) to change the pointer cursor to
> have a SW-NE orientation instead of SE-NW?
>
> i was recently advised to switch the mouse to my left hand, and i find
> it a bit awkward to use the default cursor orientation.

After a quick look at the code, I found that there is no configuration
option to change cursors. It seems that you have to change the code at
roughly line 717 of fvwm.c, in function CreateCursors (fvwm version
2.0.43). In your case, we'd want to change the line:

Scr.FvwmCursors[DEFAULT] = XCreateFontCursor(dpy, XC_top_left_arrow);

to:

Scr.FvwmCursors[DEFAULT] = XCreateFontCursor(dpy, XC_arrow);

I'll see if I can whip up a patch for a configuration option for
cursors. It should be pretty simple.

--Chris

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