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palmer Guru
Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 322 Location: Berkeley, CA
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:14 pm Post subject: Xorg Cursor Changed |
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After my update yesterday, I noticed that my X cursor looked different.
I use the "Default Pointer" setting in GNOME's cursor settings dialog. Before the update, the default cursor showed up as blank in the settings dialog. After the update, the cursor showed up exactly the same as the "Adwaita" setting. It seems that removing the "default" symlink in "/usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11" makes the GNOME cursor settings dialog revert to its previous behavior.
I didn't see anything else on the forums about this, so I figured there should at least be a solution somewhere. I also don't know why this happened, just the workaround. |
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sebaro Veteran
Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 1141 Location: Romania
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:42 am Post subject: |
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You can put the cursor theme in ~/.icons and then add "Xcursor.theme:mycursortheme" in ~/.Xdefaults. |
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CrazyCasta n00b
Joined: 01 Sep 2011 Posts: 27
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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sebaro, can you be a little more specific? palmen's solution makes sense, I have no idea what you're suggesting. |
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palmer Guru
Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 322 Location: Berkeley, CA
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I understand, he was suggesting that you can install a new cursor theme by placing it (where a cursor theme is a folder full of images that are named such that X understands them) in "~/.icons", and that you can then set that local theme by using "~/.Xdefaults".
This is somewhat orthogonal to what I was interested in which, as far as I now understand, is specifying no cursor theme. I used to specify no cursor theme by selecting "Default Pointer" in the GNOME settings dialog. One of the updates created the symlink "default" in "/usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/", which seems to be what the GNOME settings dialog selects when you click "Default Pointer". The old behavior (having no cursor theme selected) is GNOME's fallback when the default cursor theme is selected without a default cursor theme existing.
Maybe that clears things up? Sorry, looking back on it I'm not sure that it's any better than before :( . |
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Princess Nell l33t
Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for posting this. I found the new cursor theme pretty annoying (a sign of gnome-3 things to come?) and removing the default link restores the old one. |
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chaseguard Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 140
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:48 am Post subject: |
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And every time we have x11-themes/gnome-themes-standard being updated it re-creates the symlink. Rather than repeating the deletion process, where do I find the xorg cursor icons to permanently fix this (as suggested elsewhere within this post)?
EDIT: I searched around and think that the standard X cursor is /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz. I placed it in ~.icons and created an ~.Xdefaults file, but this produced no happiness. I am not sure if gnome even lets X get to reading the Xdefault.
Until more experienced minds prevail, I will continue to delete the default symlink. If this becomes to burdensome I will write a script to do that and run it every start-up (/etc/local) |
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BitJam Advocate
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 2508 Location: Silver City, NM
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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I just ran into this. How annoying! If I wanted this kind of paternalistic nonsense, I would have been using Windows or Mac. |
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equaeghe l33t
Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 634
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:24 am Post subject: |
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BitJam wrote: | I just ran into this. How annoying! If I wanted this kind of paternalistic nonsense, I would have been using Windows or Mac. |
Filed bug |
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