Cursor replaced with an X

[deltamalloc]

After doing a world update the cursor gets replaced with an "X", similar to what you'd get when you start X without having any window manager installed at all. Besides that, everything is fine.

Am I missing some ebuild? Which one? Or perhaps I should try to reemerge some particular ebuilds anyway, to see if that fixes the problem?

[deltamalloc]

Perhaps someone could point me in the direction of the ebuild(s) that contain the files for the cursor in X?

I tried searching for cursor and found /usr/lib64/libXcursor.so, however, it doesn't seem that xorg nor xfce (my current window manager) depend on it.

[cboldt]

Cursors are kept in /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11

Cursors are chosen by your window manager or desk manager or in ~/.XDefaults

Edit to add, I use cursors from the gentoo-xcursors package, and in order to get my preferred cursor in an xterm, I remove the xterm cursor that gets installed in the /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/gentoo-silver/cursors directory

[davidbrooke]

I had a different cause for my issue but the "fix" may help you either as a "fix" or a temporary work-around until you resolve your issue. See the following thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1061312-highlight-.html