[lug] White square instead of mouse cursor in KDE and Gnome...

D. Stimits stimits at idcomm.com
Tue Sep 19 13:40:47 MDT 2000


> "celttechie (Brian Jarrett)" wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've installed Mandrake 7.1 on a machine with a PS/2 mouse.  During X
> setup it asked if I would like to try v4.0 of X instead of 3.3.  I
> said yes.  Now, in Gnome or KDE, I get a big white square for a cursor
> instead of the customary arrow.  Is this because I had it install
> v4.0?  When I look at the X Server configuration, it seems to indicate
> that it's really running v3.3.  So the other question is, "How do I
> tell for sure what version of X is running?"
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian

What do the following two commands indicate (the 2nd requires you to be
in X):
X -version
xdpyinfo | grep release




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