Cursor is a cross about howm HOT 5 CLOSED

This used to happen to me a lot, even after changing the cursor theme through lxappearance, or setting it manually.
Now I am using and testing howm on both an arch and an ubuntu box, and I don't have the cross as my cursor. ( The cross is the default Xcursor)

I think this is what seems to be fixing it ( or rather avoiding it in my case)
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &

Add the above to .xinitrc or autostart or whatever you are using. Log back in and let me know if this works?

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Using the xsetroot command worked, thanks very much!

I remain slightly concerned that this could be a bug in howm as I don't think other WMs suffer this problem.

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I had this issue with both bspwm and openbox, so I don't think its just you :)

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@HarveyHunt Yes, I had this problem on bspwm, i3 and what-not. So it's not related to howm.
Edit: I think only you can close this bug, I cannot close this bug.

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That's for pointing that out, I will close this bug and breathe a sigh of relief that I don't have to hunt for another bug. 👍

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