The cursor to use in xkill is more or less hardcoded (in the source for xkill it creates a cursor using XC_pirate; this is defined as 88 in cursorfont.h; seems like an index into some kind of list or array of available cursors to me ...). It should take a cursor file named 'pirate' in the directory of your selected cursor theme. So to set xkill to use something else you should go to the directory where your cursor theme is stored (/usr/share/icons/NAME_OF_THEME/cursors), rename 'pirate' to something else that's unlikely to be used by some unlucky program (rename so you can go back to it later; if you never want to see that cursor again you could also delete it) and create a symbolic link named 'pirate' to the cursor you want to use.
Assuming you're using the default "DMZ White" theme, the commands to do this should look like this:
Code:
sudo mv /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/pirate /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/old-skull-and-bones-cursor
sudo ln -s /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/X_cursor /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/pirate
If you're using another cursor theme, you'll need to change the 'DMZ-White' in the commands above to whatever you're using.
Holger
Edit: ... or you could simply change the cursor theme to one which doesn't have the skull-and-crossbones (most don't ...).
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