Mouse cursor not applying correctly on every window

Configuration Decorations and bindings
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Hi, I’m using FVWM to make it look like IRIX 4.0.
I’m trying to install the mouse cursor, but unfortunately it doesn’t apply the right way, I mean I can see that it changes but for example when I open a terminal and leave the cursor under the left upper corner of the window, it changes to the default one, but when I leave the cursor in the left bottom corner, it apply the cursor icon that I want to. Another thing I would like to do is that when I leave the cursor the inside the terminal I want that this uses the default left_ptr icon.
I installed the cursor through this way.
Download the cursor from here: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/999497/
Extracted the folder sgi in to the .icons folder.
Go to .Xdefaults and add: XCursor.theme: sgi
I tried different ways to try to fix it but I didn’t get any differences.
I tried to add the default folder in .icons and with a index.theme file try to set the SGI cursor but had the same problem.
I tried too to do the same but in /usr/local/share/icons (I’m in FreeBSD) and nothing too.
Thank you for all your possible solutions.
Cheers.

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Hi @R6exe,

If that Irix cursor theme doesn’t match what the standard X11 terms are, then the XServer is going to have a hard time knowing what’s what.

You can define what parts of the window should match which cursor based on that Irix theme, in FVWM, via the CursorStyle command.

HTH,
Thomas

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Hi thomasadam, thank you for your answer, but in which file do I need to add that CursorStyle command ? In .Xdefaults ? And how do I use it ?
Thank you.
Regards.

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Hi @R6exe,

CursorStyle is a command FVWM understands, so you add it to your ~/.fvwm/config file.

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Hi @thomasadam.
I tried it but it didn’t work.
But thank you anyway.