Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

dtw · 2005-10-02 01:16:48

My cursors are buggered and I somehow lost my root .bash_profile - very annoying - I moved .pacsave back but it was blank

T-Dawg · 2005-10-02 01:19:19

LOL! everything went smooth here 8)

ozar · 2005-10-02 01:30:03

smooth here, too...

dtw · 2005-10-02 01:33:53

I have no idea how to fix the cursors - it's one of those things I set up once a year ago and now I can't remember how to do it...

Gullible Jones · 2005-10-02 01:46:05

Ah ha... Looks like the copy-format-reinstall shuffle was the right thing to do. I hope you've got separate root and /home partitions, Dibble. :shock:

Sorry about the bash_profile anyway, can't do anything about that. But would you mind describing how the cursors are messed up?

dtw · 2005-10-02 01:49:50

Er...it's hardly serious enough to warrant all that Gullible!

The mouse theme I use is not working basically - the regular arrow, grip hand etc are ok but some are just defaulting. It is defined in Xdefaults and the cursors are installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons.

Xcursor.theme: jimmac
Xcursor.size: 18

PKGBUILD for my fav cursors

# Contributor: dibblethewrecker <dibblethewrecker.at.jiwe.org>

pkgname=jimmac-x11-cursors
pkgver=1.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="X11 mouse theme based on Jimmac's cursors"
url="http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=6550"
license="GPL"
depends=('x-server')
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(http://kde-look.org/content/files/6550-Jimmac.tar.gz)
md5sums=('46fb39d5e176dfc3bfa2c65743301f03')

build() {
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/etc/X11/cursors
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons
  
  cp $startdir/src/Jimmac/default/index.theme $startdir/pkg/etc/X11/cursors/jimmac.theme
  cp -r $startdir/src/Jimmac/jimmac $startdir/pkg/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons
}

stonecrest · 2005-10-02 01:50:23

cursors are defined in the ~/.icons/ directory, if that's what you mean.

dtw · 2005-10-02 01:53:53

stonecrest wrote:

cursors are defined in the ~/.icons/ directory, if that's what you mean.

Well, mine aren't so no, that's not what I mean! Are you suggesting an alternative?

dtw · 2005-10-02 01:57:02

Weird:

Busy, hyperlink hand, text insert and bottom right resize are wrong.
Normal arrow, grab hand and bottom left resize are ok...

dtw · 2005-10-02 02:07:44

Well, adding the to .icons seems to have worked >< - cheers stonecrest - wonder why it broke tho? It didn't upgrade xorg yet...

cactus · 2005-10-02 02:54:56

dibble. the package 'filesystem' has the root profile files in it.
pacman -Ql filesystem | grep root

alexmat · 2005-10-02 04:55:06

dibble could you elaborate on what you did to get your cursors back to normal? My custom cursor theme works great in everything except firefox and thunderbird where it reverts to the default. I have the custom set of cursor files in .icons and specified in .Xdefaults. Is there something I'm missing?

Otherwise a smooth upgrade!

dtw · 2005-10-02 11:14:00

To save me explaining just google for google:install x11 cursors. Or check out a read me in a cursor tarball for kdelook etc

alexmat · 2005-10-02 20:56:37

I did follow the kdelooks install and got custom cursors working. The only place they dont work is in firefox and thunderbird. It switches to the default cursors there.. anyone else getting this?

Not a big deal, I can live with it

iBertus · 2005-10-02 21:30:46

alexmat wrote:

I did follow the kdelooks install and got custom cursors working. The only place they dont work is in firefox and thunderbird. It switches to the default cursors there.. anyone else getting this?
Not a big deal, I can live with it

Have you killed X and restarted it since doing that?

Centare · 2005-10-03 02:02:37

I'm having the same problem as alexmat. Cursors look great everywhere except in Firefox, Thunderbird, and Beep Media Player's main screen, where they revert to the default cursors.

I've set the cursor theme in kcontrol->Peripherals->Mouse->Cursor Theme, copied the directory containing that cursor theme into ~/.icons, set XCursor.theme in ~/.Xdefaults, and ensured that $XCURSOR_THEME is set properly. X was killed and restarted after each step.

It's still not working, unfortunately.

slackhack · 2005-10-03 14:05:13

in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme, change Inherits=core to Inherits=jimmac (or whatever you use -- must be in the icons directory, of course ). then restart X. that usually works for me no matter which distro.

i'm upgrading now, and i'm already noticing that my (heavily modified) root .bashrc is gone -- i should have read this thread first. what other fun changes can i anticipate?

dtw · 2005-10-03 14:13:12

I still have no idea how I lost mine - it should have been moved to pacsave...but wasn't...

slackhack · 2005-10-03 14:26:21

good thing i had a fairly recent backup, just have to tweak a few things.

i notice there's also a .bashrc.arch in /root that's identical to .bashrc, just 3 lines setting ls color, etc. but no .bashrc.pacsave here, either.

[5] root:/var/log # cat pacman.log |grep bash
[08/26/05 18:59] warning: /root/.bashrc saved as /root/.bashrc.pacsave

looks like someone forgot something this time.

dtw · 2005-10-03 15:00:17

Looks like it fixed in CVS but won't take affect until the next upgrade booooo!

xerverius · 2005-10-03 17:13:15

BTW there is a new version of you cursor theme: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=28281

Centare · 2005-10-03 21:25:28

slackhack wrote:

in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme, change Inherits=core to Inherits=jimmac (or whatever you use -- must be in the icons directory, of course ). then restart X. that usually works for me no matter which distro.

Righto, that worked well. Putting the Inherits line in ~/.icons/default/index.theme also works.

alexmat · 2005-10-04 06:24:11

Centare: THANK YOU!

I did it the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme way this morning, and it worked, then later today xorg upgraded and I had the pleasure of redoing it, now that I can keep it in my home folder it's (hopefully) permanent across upgrades.

Arch Linux

#1 2005-10-02 01:16:48

Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#2 2005-10-02 01:19:19

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#3 2005-10-02 01:30:03

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#4 2005-10-02 01:33:53

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#5 2005-10-02 01:46:05

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#6 2005-10-02 01:49:50

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#7 2005-10-02 01:50:23

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#8 2005-10-02 01:53:53

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#9 2005-10-02 01:57:02

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#10 2005-10-02 02:07:44

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#11 2005-10-02 02:54:56

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#12 2005-10-02 04:55:06

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#13 2005-10-02 11:14:00

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#14 2005-10-02 20:56:37

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#15 2005-10-02 21:30:46

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#16 2005-10-03 02:02:37

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#17 2005-10-03 14:05:13

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#18 2005-10-03 14:13:12

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#19 2005-10-03 14:26:21

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#20 2005-10-03 15:00:17

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#21 2005-10-03 17:13:15

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#22 2005-10-03 21:25:28

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

#23 2005-10-04 06:24:11

Re: Aw shucks - no clean update for me!

Board footer