Strange mouse 'X' cursor

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

MR ZenWiz wrote:

>I did not have an .xinitrc file in my home directory, so I created
>one that also included what's in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.

Good.

>However, this does not appear to have any effect. I started up a
>Firefox window after that, and the X cursor came back.

I believe you have to log out and back in or reboot afterwards for it
to take effect, but you're right that it wouldn't have any effect. A
bit of research turned up several pages where folks said that
~/.xinitrc is only run by the “startx” command and not by the display
manager when you log in, which explains why it didn't do anything. It
still might be worth keeping it in place for times when you would
manually run startx, though.

>There are .xsession files, and I don't feel comfortable editing that
>yet.

I wouldn't.

>I created an alias to reset the mouse cursor for myself.

In the ~/.bashrc file? That sounds like a perfect solution. Is it
working fine now?

-- 
Little Girl

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