Purge X waiting mode? [SOLVED]

[Alad]

I have a few berserk buttons and "waiting mode" is one of them. Basically for no apparent reason you get a little "busy" mouse cursor for 60 secs.

In i3, there's

Code: Select all

--no-startup-id

In DEs you have a switch in .desktop files:

Code: Select all

StartupNotify=false

However in both cases that asinine clock still shows up from time to time. Is there a way to get rid of it completely? Maybe just modify the cursor theme?

[machinebacon]

A very wild guess, but I think this is related:

when you use rxvt-unicode as terminal, it also pulls in the dependency libstartup-notification (cinnamon, xfce, openbox, gnome-shell, mate, i3, etc. do the same)
And this will bring the spinning cursor. Else they wouldn't be able to send the startup notification to X, which in turn wouldn't change the cursor for the time. So I guess (!) that using xterm in a WM like spectrwm, and removing libstartup-notification will make the session start with the 'normal' cursor, set via xsetroot, and not change it to busy.

And no, I don't think changing the theme helps. It would still get the impulse from the application sent via startup-notification to the X server.

A dirty hack would be simply changing the busy cursor to a normal one. Hackish. But there are xcursor.theme files. Never tried it though.

Edit: Maybe it is even possible to override the Xresources, by using the Xresources codes found in the Appendix B of the X server ducomentation. http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/appendix/b/

So for example:
XCursor.watch = false

But hey, I really have no clue :)

[GekkoP]

It MAY be enough to set the cursor via xsetroot. I do that, and I have libstartup-notification around, and cursor doesn't change to "wait" when I'm opening, say, gimp or libreoffice or inkscape.

[machinebacon]

xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &

I have this in .xinitrc, maybe it is enough to override the X shaped cursor, but in i3 it still gets the startup notification if not explicitly turned off.

[Alad]

Code: Select all

XCursor.watch: false
XCursor.left_ptr_watch: false

in ~/.Xresources and

Code: Select all

xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &

in ~/.xinitrc didn't help, so I just removed the watch pointers:

Code: Select all

cd /usr/share/icons/Vanilla-DMZ/cursors/
rm watch left_ptr_watch
ln -s left_ptr watch
ln -s left_ptr left_ptr_watch

Relogin and success. Thank you very much guys.

[machinebacon]

lol, and I thought renaming the .theme would be hackish enough :D

Solved is solved!