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krax

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From: Tory;Mi

Registered: 2010-06-26

Posts: 62

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Mouse with the shape of "X"

Using simple WMs has some disadvantages; one of them is your mouse being in the shape of an "X".
the simple way to rectify that is:

xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr

but I always loved win8 cursor theme and I want to set that as default. So I did put [[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources in my xinitrc and  Xcursor.theme: Win8 in my Xresources. still I get the X cursor. So tell me what I am doing wrong?

PS: if I open lxappearance after each startx my mouse turns to win8.

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: Mouse with the shape of "X"

I don't know if that will help you, but I can tell what I did to use the 'Oxygen_Blue' cursor theme, from the start of openbox:
I created a file '/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme' with these lines in it

[icon theme] 
Inherits=Oxygen_Blue

The cursor theme is part of the 'kdebase-workspace' package.
This establishes a default cursor theme in place of the X default one.

root

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2012-04-13

Posts: 297

Re: Mouse with the shape of "X"

Do you have something else configured in your Xresources file? If so, is/are that/those other setting(s) applied?

If there isn't anything else in that file my next question would be, where exactly did you place the merge code in your .xinitrc?
If it is at the end of the file, as far as I am concerned, you did it wrong. The code has to be place before the code you use to execute your Windows Manager. If you placed it afterwards it won't work as expected.

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Mouse with the shape of "X"

You still have to set the root window cursor to something.  Cursor 0 is an X in the win8 theme too.  Each theme has *many* cursors to chose from, but if your WM doesn't set the root window cursor to a valid number, and neither do you, having an alternative theme will not really do anything.

I gather lxappearance does set it for you.

And, BTW, setting the cursor to something other than 0 is ridiculously trivial in WM code.  You should request the author add a single line (e.g., "XDefineCursor(dpy, root, XCreateFontCursor(dpy,68));") to the initialization to do just that.

Last edited by Trilby (2014-05-21 23:16:38)

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