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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:11:36 -0600
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Robert Haines wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When my machine is busy the "hourglass" that the mouse pointer changes 
> to has changed to a series of rotating blue dots. I'm not normally 
> sensitive to such things, but I'm finding this really annoying because I 
> keep losing my mouse in my dark backgrounds.
> 
> I can't really put my finger on when this all changed but I suspect it 
> was yesterday when I upgraded from 4.1 to 4.2.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to change the "hourglass" back to an actual 
> hourglass? I've tried to change it via Preferences->Mouse and 
> Preferences->Themes to no avail..
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob

Hi Rob,
The change was part of the 'update' of the graphics that redhat made.  I 
know this because I had to re-scientific the graphics all because they 
changed 4 icons and the mouse cursor.
Anyway ... which desktop are you using?  Gnome or KDE?

Troy
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