Troy Dawson wrote: > 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 Hi Rob, This isn't as easy as I thought it was. I could have sworn we had more than one cursor set. If anyone else wants to chime in feel free because I know I won't be able to get to it today. Oh, Rob is using gnome, but after looking at this I believe people will have the same problem on kde. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________