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On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 05:08:51AM -0700, walt wrote: |
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> On 10/16/2011 03:15 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hello, Gentoo! |
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> > I'm using Gnome 2.32.1 in X11. |
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> > My mouse pointers have all acquired unwanted borders. That is to say, |
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> > where there used just to be a solid black arrow, it is now surrounded by |
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> > a black outline enclosing a white outline around the arrow. |
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> > I don't like this! I didn't ask for it! |
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> > I first noticed this problem while starting Firefox. It seemed to hiccup |
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> > a bit (I think), and then all pointers (in all applications) went bad. |
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> > I've looked inside Gnome "preferences", but can't find a way to change |
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> > the pointers back. I suspect this is an X setting rather than a Gnome |
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> > one. |
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> Have a look at gnome-extra/gcursor. |
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Just done that. I've installed it, and it gives just four choices, all |
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of which have the border I don't like or (even worse) a shadow. Other |
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than that it gives a file selector, which doesn't seem to be of any use. |
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What I want is to just to get back the plain black icons I had before. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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