off screen display - Openbox

[patrick013]

Very good, happy you solved it, though I don't know about these cursor font things. What is a cursor font ? I use cursor themes usually.

In /usr/share/fonts/misc I have cursor.pcf.gz and added big-cursor.pcf.
The fonts.dir file specifies which is used.

I didn't have any other cursor packages installed but one config
file had Obsidian listed as cursor font.    Could have caused the
confusion.    But crystalblue is a nicer cursor anyway.

lxappearance doesn't config everything the way it used to.

[djohnston]

I had a feeling you'd find a solution. Glad you did. You're persistent.   

[patrick013]

I had a feeling you'd find a solution. Glad you did. You're persistent.   

thx.  just talking about it on the forum helps to look at what's going on.

[melodie]

I still don't know what "cursor fonts" are. :/

Can someone explain to me?

[djohnston]

Melodie:

You can make your mouse cursor look like a smiley face or a text character  " "  or "$"

That's kinda weird to me. I just use cursor themes, too.

[patrick013]

I still don't know what "cursor fonts" are. :/

Can someone explain to me?

cursor.pcf or big-cursor.pcf are mouse cursor themes that default
when no other mouse themes are installed.

[melodie]

Melodie:

You can make your mouse cursor look like a smiley face or a text character  " "  or "$"

one such site to download cursor fonts

 http://www.dafont.com/cursor.font

Now I get it!

Thanks.