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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted
	borders.  Help!
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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).