[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#546387: nodm: set the default pointer

[Andres Salomon]

Package: nodm
Version: 0.6-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

It would appear that gdm sets the default cursor to left_ptr by default:

dilinger at mycelium:~/gdm-2.20.9$ grep -r left_ptr .
./config/PreSession.in:	"$XSETROOT" -cursor_name left_ptr -solid "$BACKCOLOR"

It would be nice if nodm did this as well.  When running on a sid system
with gnome + xmonad + gdm, the default cursor (that is, the one that shows
up when focus is on the root window) is the left_ptr cursor.  When gdm
is replaced with nodm (so that's gnome + xmonad + gdm), the default
cursor is instead the X_cursor cursor.  This looks pretty ugly by
comparison.

Calling `xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr` does fix this, but it would
be nice if it happened automatically.

Note that window managers can then override the default cursor as well
(metacity does this); setting the default would just make for a
nice fallback for those WMs that don't set the cursor.