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 -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________