help needed with X11 cursor and observed behavior

[John Hughes]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 10:47 -0400, nick lidakis wrote:
> I will try to explain the problem (feature?) I have been observing with 
> my X11 cursor. Any suggestions with this would be appreciated.
> 
> Using Debian Unstable, I have been using the whiteglass cursor theme for 
> quite some time. The only thing that has been annoying me of late is 
> this: Whenever the whiteglass cursor is inside the Firefox window and 
> the applications is performing some action, like loading or reloading a 
> page, the whiteglass cursor will revert to the original black X cursor 
> until that action is complete. Same thing will happen when using 
> Thunderbird; e.g. while deleting messages.
> 
> Do I have something mis configured?
See debian bug 372096.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372096