Yesterday, my mouse cursor in KDE/Qt apps suddenly changed. I always had the 'classic' theme set in systemsettings, and that resulted in a standard pointy arrow cursor. Yesterday, however, as soon as i logged on I had a weird 'triangle with a circle cut out' cursor. In systemsettings, it says this is "KDE Classic Cursor", 'the default cursor for KDE2 and KDE3'. I personally find it rather horrid, so I changed it. However, When I exit X and log back in, the 'classic' cursor is back. No matter which alternative cursor I choose, it only lasts for that session, although the cursor I actually selected is shown highlichted in systemsettings...

I have tried deleting my .kde to no avail.

The only change I made before this started happening was adding a line to my .xinitrc to enable a menu called 'yeahlauch' which is part of yeahwm (Although I use xmonad as a WM and no desktop environment, so these cursor troubles happen only in KDE/Qt apps). EDIT: I have tried commenting out the new line and the problem persists.

Anyone??

Solved!

Was setting-up 13.1 on my new (well, 2nd-hand) Thinkpad yesterday and it started exhibiting the same behaviour shortly after installing the 'artwiz-aleczapka' fonts from SBo. Removed those, and everything was back to normal.

I have no idea why this happens, but if you have the same problem and have those fonts installed, try removepkg-ing them - it fixed it for me, on 2 machines...