From f8f3fbdf63ee8d1f1a08b9fb46a626484369ac63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tomit4 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 01:35:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] added xorg-xsetroot to fix bspwm cursor issue --- updates.txt | 7 +++++-- xinitrc.txt | 1 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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