diff --git a/updates.txt b/updates.txt
index f6275164..37ab2736 100644
--- a/updates.txt
+++ b/updates.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ example:
 ls | pick | xargs bat # will give you a choice of the files from ls, pick displays a menu to "pick" the file, which then is parsed to xargs bat (invokes bat on choice from ls | pick)
 
 install snarf (great tool very much like wget, curl), and shellcheck (an error handling tool for bash scripts), and gawk (GNU awk), and nawk (BSD awk):
-
-doas pacman -S snarf shellcheck gawk nawk
+also install xorg-xsetroot (fixes cursor problem in bspwm)
+doas pacman -S xorg-xsetroot snarf shellcheck gawk nawk
 
 put gawk.pdf from programming_books on kobo
+
+add to .xinitrc:
+xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &
diff --git a/xinitrc.txt b/xinitrc.txt
index 366471c3..cb5b87bc 100644
--- a/xinitrc.txt
+++ b/xinitrc.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ picom --config /home/brian/.config/picom/picom.conf & # --experimental-backends
 # nm-applet
 dunst &
 xbanish &
+xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &
 # pulseaudio --start &
 
 # Notification for Laptop Battery