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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc>
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Subject: Re: mouse pointer size
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:55:46 +0200
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On Sat, Jun 25 2005, Tim X wrote:

> I think you may be looking in the wrong place. The mouse cursor size etc is
> handled by X windows, not emacs. If you look at the Linux HOWTOS,
> there is a mini HOWTO called something like big-cursor, which explains
> how to make the cursor larger - perhaps this will give you enough info
> on how to go in the other idrection. 

For me (running SuSE 9.2) "unset XCURSOR_THEME" brought back the small
cursor types.  XCURSOR_THEME is set in /etc/profile.d/desktop-data.sh
on SuSE.

Bye, Reiner.
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