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fdservices

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From: France

Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 413

xfce4 cursor settings

For some reason xfce4 does not always load the cursor them that I have selected. I have carefully followed the arch wiki on cursors, but still it seems to prefer the default cursor them, which I think is rather ugly.

Any tips would be appreciated

Andrew

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: xfce4 cursor settings

For some reason xfce4 does not always load the cursor them that I have selected.

What exactly do you mean? Sometimes you log in and your selected cursor theme isn't displayed? Or are you having per-app issues?

For Xfce, all you need to do is set the cursor theme and size in Settings Manager > Mouse and Touchpad > Theme and it should work. Which cursor theme are you trying to use?

fdservices

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From: France

Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 413

Re: xfce4 cursor settings

What exactly do you mean? Sometimes you log in and your selected cursor theme isn't displayed? Or are you having per-app issues?

The former - Sometimes I log in and my selected cursor theme isn't displayed

For Xfce, all you need to do is set the cursor theme and size in Settings Manager > Mouse and Touchpad > Theme and it should work.

Exactly

I have it set to "wonderland" which I downloaded.

Andrew

andresgabriel

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2016-01-18

Posts: 17

Re: xfce4 cursor settings

Hi

I'm having the per-app issues. My Breeze-Hacked theme work fine till today. The only change to my system was trying to intall Telegram-Desktop from AUR, unsuccessfully btw. I delete orphans and clean the cache but my cursor theme dont work well, i try to change de theme whit "sudo xfce4-mouse-settings" but when i selected any theme noting change.
- at the desktop >>> default theme
- over Chromium >>> Breeze-Hacked theme
- over Thunar >>> default theme
- Terminal >>> default theme
- Skype >>> Breeze-Hacked theme...
... etc..

If anyone knows what can i do, i appreciate the help

thanks in advance

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: xfce4 cursor settings

"sudo xfce4-mouse-settings"

You should not use "sudo" to configure any of your Xfce settings. You want to affect user-based configuration.

Also check all the permissions in your ~/.config/xfce4 folder and subfolders to ensure that using the sudo command hasn't changed them.

fdservices

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From: France

Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 413

Re: xfce4 cursor settings

My cursor settings differ from my PC to me netbook. On the latter they are as set, on the former they are set to default. No idea why they are different.

The only major difference is that the PC has Nvidia graphics while the netbook has Intel.

Andrew

Radioactiveman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 389

Re: xfce4 cursor settings

Does adding a symlink to "default" help? Afterwards select it at the Xfce mouse settings.

/usr/share/icons # ln -s Vanilla-DMZ default

michis

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Registered: 2015-12-12

Posts: 77

Re: xfce4 cursor settings

@andresgabriel

I had the per-app problem here too. Setting the theme in  /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme  solved it.

see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cu … cification

andresgabriel

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2016-01-18

Posts: 17

Re: xfce4 cursor settings

@andresgabriel

I had the per-app problem here too. Setting the theme in  /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme  solved it.

see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cu … cification

Well, ill name my first son Michis.

Thank's for the tip.

* Now i only want to know why i can't change the cursor theme from de gui setting*

fdservices

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From: France

Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 413

Re: xfce4 cursor settings

Raddioactiveman: I'll try that and see if it changes anything, however I think it would be a temporary fix since, presumably, the default scheme will be overwritten from time to time on upgrades.

The other suggestions I already have in place.

Andrew