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xeekei

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2012-12-06

Posts: 47

Cursor hanging as "pointing hand/finger" sprout with Xfce

Hello. I've encountered a minor but annoying issue. I know correlation != causation and all that, but this only seems to happen when Steam is running. My cursor sometimes hangs in the "hand with pointing finger" sprout. I can still click around and use it normally, and fixing it is as simply as launching a new application (like settings menu or something). It might be because it then breefly changes into the "spinning ball" loading sprout, I don't know.

A web search gave me a few hits about people having similar but more severe issues, but even if they were related no one really had a solution. There was mostly just old threads anyway.

Does anyone have any ideas? I use Xfce. Thanks in advance.

Last edited by xeekei (2014-06-10 12:57:46)

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Cursor hanging as "pointing hand/finger" sprout with Xfce

Have you tried setting your X cursor theme via index.theme?

# cat ~/.icons/default/index.theme 
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Adwaita

xeekei

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2012-12-06

Posts: 47

Re: Cursor hanging as "pointing hand/finger" sprout with Xfce

Have you tried setting your X cursor theme via index.theme?

# cat ~/.icons/default/index.theme 
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Adwaita

Okay, I've created this index.theme file. I'll play around with Steam running, and return if it seems fixed or happens again. Thanks!

xeekei

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2012-12-06

Posts: 47

Re: Cursor hanging as "pointing hand/finger" sprout with Xfce

Okay. It seems fixed now. I thank you a lot. Marked as solved.

EDIT:
FALSE ALARM! It was NOT fixed. It might've made it occur much less frequently though.

Last edited by xeekei (2014-06-10 12:57:26)