On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/08/2008 10:48 AM: > >> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:11:26AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> >>> NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/07/2008 09:46 AM: >>> >>>> less /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian >>>> (this is a useful general rule) >>>> >>> that is nowhere near intuitive! >>> >> >> many debian packages have documentation in /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGENAME >> and often there is a README.Debian (or similar names) with debian specific >> post-installation instructions. >> >> new session for a new user and I still have the same small cursors and >>> mouse pointers. >>> >> >> you do not need a new "session" but a new istance of the X server (or >> possibly not, as the above file explains). If you are using gdm / kdm / >> xdm / wdm ... (as opposed to startx), then a logout does NOT start a new >> istance of the X server, since the display manager ?dm keeps alive the >> old istance of X. >> >> You can restart the display manager /etc/init.d/gdm restart >> and/or kill the X server (and so lose all unsaved data in your session) >> from the X server itself (unless disabled in xorg.conf): >> <alt><ctrl><backspace> >> with a console command: killall X >> and/or >> log in in console and manually start a new X istance: >> startx -- :1 >> >> > OK, I started a third instance by logging on a third linux user on a > console (tty3) and running startx -- :2 > and there was no difference in the new session. > > I have two other instances(?) of x-session-manager running. Do I have to > get all of these shutdown for the change to take effect? > Okay, let me try one more time. If you have ooffice, try the following: sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme choose something dfferent from what you're using. Then run ooffice. On the area of the openoffice windows, hope you can see the dfference. I don't know exactly why, but on my machine after running update-alternatives, the cursor won't change immediately but if I run ooffice, after that I can always see the change on the openoffice windows. Manu
