KDE and new Xfree pointers: Incorrent Hand Pointer

Elm0 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 281 Location: UK

I'm getting used to the larger cursor size in Xfree 4.3 however, rather annoyingly, when I go over the desktop icons in KDE, the cursor changes to the original Xfree circa 4.2 style hand pointer.

Is everyone else experiencing this same behaviour? Any one got any ideas on how to fix this?

madpl · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Lodz, Poland

I am having the same problem,
any advices?

asimon · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 10:43 am Post subject:

Qt is not yet compatible with the new XCursors and uses on many occations the old ones. The only solution is to fix this in Qt.
There is already a patch from Stefano <stefanux@libero.it>: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=104655590117552&w=2
(I haven't tested the patch and don't know if it actually works or if it introduces any new bugs)

AFAIK there exist no official solution from Trolltech yet.

dbezona · n00b Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 68

Actually, the patch is unecessary - here is a good overview of the issue, and how to resolve it - it's simply a matter of making some sym-links in your cursors directory:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54359

refriedbean · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:26 am Post subject:

Works great!
Thanks

Mooses · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 128

Sorry, but which cursors directory?

(Too early in the morning to find it, I suppose)

Mooses

dbezona · n00b Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 68

Mooses · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 128

Cool, Thanks

mvr_rennes · Apprentice Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 155

As for the cursor size, you can specify it in your .Xdefaults file.
IIRC, I've set it to something like :
Xcursor.size: 16

cheers,
M