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From: ianr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Ian Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xterm cursor
Keywords: xterm, gumby
Message-ID: <1127@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Jun 89 14:05:00 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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From man xterm:

>X DEFAULTS
>     The program understands all of the core X  Toolkit  resource
>     names and classes as well as:
>
>       ...
>
>     pointerShape (class Cursor)
>             Specifies the name of the shape of the pointer.  The
>             default is ``xterm.''


... and the only other one that seems to work is ``arrow''. Is it possible to
get any of the other cursors from the Cursor Font to work as the xterm
pointerShape, or am I just misguided? (I would love to have ``gumby'' :-)

Thanks,


Ian Rogers
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