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HarveyHunt / howm

A lightweight, X11 tiling window manager that behaves like vim
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Cursor is a cross #6

Closed HarveyHunt closed 9 years ago

HarveyHunt commented 9 years ago

The cursor looks like a cross a lot of the time. This doesn't happen with other WMs.

anubhavcodes commented 9 years ago

This used to happen to me a lot, even after changing the cursor theme through lxappearance, or setting it manually. Now I am using and testing howm on both an arch and an ubuntu box, and I don't have the cross as my cursor. ( The cross is the default Xcursor)

I think this is what seems to be fixing it ( or rather avoiding it in my case) xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &

Add the above to .xinitrc or autostart or whatever you are using. Log back in and let me know if this works?

HarveyHunt commented 9 years ago

Using the xsetroot command worked, thanks very much!

I remain slightly concerned that this could be a bug in howm as I don't think other WMs suffer this problem.

tmathmeyer commented 9 years ago

I had this issue with both bspwm and openbox, so I don't think its just you :)

anubhavcodes commented 9 years ago

@HarveyHunt Yes, I had this problem on bspwm, i3 and what-not. So it's not related to howm. Edit: I think only you can close this bug, I cannot close this bug.

HarveyHunt commented 9 years ago

That's for pointing that out, I will close this bug and breathe a sigh of relief that I don't have to hunt for another bug. :+1: