On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:12:10PM -0500, Matthew K Poer wrote: > An odd situation: When I start Fluxbox (or any other WM) from GDM, I get > to use the font and cursor set by GDM. > > If I start fluxbox with 'startx' I am given another font and cursor. > > If I knew which font and cursor GDM was using, I would like to have > fluxbox use them, but I don't. And I can't find where GDM's setting is > that tells it which to use. /etc/gdm/gdm.conf doesn't mention much on > fonts or cursors. I've explored /etc/X11 and found nothing. Can anyone > point me in the right direction? I spent some considerable time googling this with no great results *except* that there is an alternative call x-cursor-theme. Its not there in my setup, but if you install one of the cursor theme packages like artwiz-cursor or big-cursor, etc I assume that alternative would get created at that point. In my searching I did read once that gdm actually uses the default X cursors (hence your inability to find how gdm selects it...) and so maybe fluxbox has its own set of cursors that it is using somehow. I will tell you this -- the actual cursor selection mechanism appears to be a deep mystery. A
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