config question

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:18:09PM -0800, Mike Rice wrote:
> QUESTION:
> How (in RH-6.2) do I change the pixmap of the default mouse cursor from
> the ever-present X to anything else?  I'm using KDE with KWM and am not
> afraid to get my hands dirty. 

There are two basic techniques I know of:
1) xsetroot  -- look here:
http://linux.daphnis.com/RedHat/Custom-X-Tips-5.html

2) changing the actual cursor font -- look here:
http://i11www.ira.uka.de/~schneid/X11-big-cursor/master/X11-big-cursor.html

(you might have that last one on your system somewhere under /usr/doc/HOWTO)
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