How to change mouse cursor to standard hand cursor

[Sam Varshavchik]

Cosmin Apreutesei writes:

> Hi,
>
> I need to change the mouse pointer for a window to the standard hand
> cursor (I need a toolkit-independent solution, preferably XCB-based).
>
> I noticed that loading the "cursor" font and changing the window
> attribute XCB_CW_CURSOR to XC_hand2 loads an ugly and unfamiliar hand
> cursor, not the default Ubuntu hand cursor that you see in Chrome when
> you hover links.
>
> Any ideas?

There's really no such thing as a "default cursor".

The cursor on the root window is going to get set by whatever desktop you're  
using – Gnome, KDE, XFCE, or what not; and inherited by all top-level  
windows.

You may want to check the documentation for your desktop manager. It's  
possible that your desktop manager might define a standard set of cursors,  
as well-defined resources.

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