Okay, how hard can it really be, honestly, to figure out how to get X to change its cursor without having to restart KDE/gnome/etc.? We’re in the stone ages, folks, when the our little user (me, at the moment) has to log out and log in again from his desktop environment to be able to affect changes to his/her mouse cursor. It sure feels like the dreaded Windoze answer of “reboot whenever possible”.

Anyone know, is xorg planning anything to help this silliness? Maybe KDE 3.4? Heck, I’d settle for an explanation of what program is at fault here.

Also, I’m tired of having to hunt and search for decent CursorXP cursors, then run a home-made script which runs sd2xc.pl to convert them to X cursors. Speaking of… sd2xc.pl is no longer able to add the drop shadows that I want anymore, due probably to recent changes in ImageMagick somewhere along the line. So, I’m disgruntled, dangit. Also, apparently some CursorXP cursors do this neato thing where they are animated for a few frames, and then they stay in the last-animation frame, instead of looping. This looks really nice in CursorXP, but when these get converted/hacked to X cursors, they loop, looking really jerky and stupid. *sigh* I just want nice-looking cursors in Linux/X.

Also, does anyone know how to get the newer versions of ImageMagick/perlmagick (6.0.7.1) to do correct drop-shadowing?