[SOLVED] Cursor themes

ysetdng · 2014-09-22 03:13:26

Hi, I noticed a strange behavior with my cursor: I installed a theme (Adwaita from the GNOME project, via the official package), and the new cursor works fine in Firefox but as soon as i move the mouse beyond the corner of the window (i3 wm) it changes immedeately to some default scheme (but there are no other themes currently installed, at least lxappearance show me none, so I guess there must be some unnamed default). Also when using lxappearance the default cursor becomes visible, in xterm it varies. My install is rather fresh so there is no other GUI software installed so far and I can't tell more about the behavior in different programs.

Could it be a problem with xcb-util-cursor, some package required by i3?

Thanks for you help!

Last edited by ysetdng (2014-09-22 03:45:41)

ysetdng · 2014-09-22 03:25:38

BTW I just read the wiki article on cursor themes more carefully, sorry for not doing this before posting, and I tried to set up an index.theme in /usr/share/icons/default as described there but apparently lxappearance did this automatically, at least the file was already there I didn't use any other software to set the cursor themes.

progandy · 2014-09-22 03:26:59

You can try to restart xorg, maybe then the cursor will be changed everywhere.

ysetdng · 2014-09-22 03:29:01

I rebooted already a couple times, no effect

progandy · 2014-09-22 03:35:46

What are the contents of ~/.icons/default/index.theme? It should be created by lxappearance.

# This file is written by LXAppearance. Do not edit.
[Icon Theme]
Name=Default
Comment=Default Cursor Theme
Inherits=Human

Do you have an Xcursor.theme entry in xrdb? Use xrdb -query to find out. If there is one, it might interfere with lxappearance.

ysetdng · 2014-09-22 03:45:26

Ah there is a local file too! Yeah, I just saw that the Wiki also said something about this, sorry again for being so lazy with reading again Anyway, that seemed to be the solution, I just added the Inherits value to the local index.theme file.

Alad · 2014-09-22 14:33:29

Note if you want to do this with some GUI, use lxappearance (it's the only GUI that uses the index.theme method, unlike the Xsettings implementation from XFCE etc. that's plain broken).

Last edited by Alad (2014-09-22 14:34:33)

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#1 2014-09-22 03:13:26

[SOLVED] Cursor themes

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