On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 04 Dec 2001 10:01:50 +0100, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 04:17:19PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
> > > > Marcus Lundblad <ml_at_update.uu.se> writes:
> > > > > My has become a clock whenever I move in over my root window.
> > > > > Have anyone seen anything like this? Can it be a normal program that did
> > > > > this? (I don't use Gnome panels or a filemanager such as gmc or nautilus
> > > > > that draw in the root).
> > > > >
> > > > > Restarting fvwm2 doesn't do any difference, so it's probably not fvwm's
> > > > > fault.
> > > > >
> > > > > And it's possible to use root menus, when opening them the pointer turns
> > > > > normal, and goes back to a clock after the menu goes away.
> > > >
> > > > Fvwm can do this along with a bunch of other programs.
> > >
> > > If it's fvwm, pressing Ctrl-Alt-Escape should help (this tells
> > > fvwm not to wait any longer for certain events).
> >
> > Well, I guess it isn't fvwm, because this doesn't help. Very weird, I just
> > can't find the problem, it's driving me nuts... guess I'll have to log
> > out...
>
> In shell, execute "xsetroot -cursor_name right_ptr -fg green -bg darkred"
> wait some time to verify that no program in background changes the root
> pointer that should be green. Then restart FVWM.
>
> If the pointer is black-on-white clock again, this is likely to be an FVWM
> issue, press Ctrl-Alt-Esc to break some Wait in your config. If this does
> not help, you may just defined clock cursor for ROOT context, just define
> another cursor using "CursorStyle ROOT hand2 red navy".
I did this. And it works. So now the pinter is back to normal.
Must have been some program that changed it and then crashed...
It's probably a good idea to set the pointer to it's default in the init,
so that that a restart fixes stuff like this.
//Marcus
>
> Report results.
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
>
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Received on Tue Dec 04 2001 - 09:24:54 GMT