From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RFptP-0002Et-1m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:18:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 590AE21C0B8; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:18:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB8821C04D for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:17:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 74017 invoked by uid 3782); 17 Oct 2011 16:17:06 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD955695F.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.105.95]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:17:05 +0200 Received: (qmail 7825 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Oct 2011 16:12:29 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:12:28 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help! Message-ID: <20111017161228.GC4735@acm.acm> References: <20111016101536.GA3168@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fed88c08374febba3d26b5babdcf0de2 On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 05:08:51AM -0700, walt wrote: > On 10/16/2011 03:15 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo! > > I'm using Gnome 2.32.1 in X11. > > My mouse pointers have all acquired unwanted borders. That is to say, > > where there used just to be a solid black arrow, it is now surrounded by > > a black outline enclosing a white outline around the arrow. > > I don't like this! I didn't ask for it! > > I first noticed this problem while starting Firefox. It seemed to hiccup > > a bit (I think), and then all pointers (in all applications) went bad. > > I've looked inside Gnome "preferences", but can't find a way to change > > the pointers back. I suspect this is an X setting rather than a Gnome > > one. > Have a look at gnome-extra/gcursor. Just done that. I've installed it, and it gives just four choices, all of which have the border I don't like or (even worse) a shadow. Other than that it gives a file selector, which doesn't seem to be of any use. What I want is to just to get back the plain black icons I had before. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).