Re: Busy-cursor?

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

+----- From: Peter Astrand <peter@student.liu.se>
| Anyway, I've made an *very ugly* wrapper-script to show what a mean. It
| doesn't change the cursor of the panel, and the cursor should be a
| combined pointer-hourglass, not a watch. More on, this script takes a lot
| of resources, thus increasing the time to start an application :-) 
+--->8

Had you considered modifying xtoolwait to set the pointer while it's waiting
for the application window to pop up?  It should be less resource-intensive,
since it waits by blocking on the X socket waiting on relevant window events.

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