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pflaume

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Registered: 2015-03-31

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No pointer visible

Hi!

I have installed Arch in qemu (Ubuntu host) und it works very well. Then I installed xorg-server, xorg-xinit and xorg-server-utils, also xf86-video-mesa, xf86-video-vesa and xf86-video-intel drivers (I use a graphic chipset by intel).
Then I copied xinitrc to my home directory aaand I linked: ln -s /usr/share/Adwaita/cursors ~/.icons/default/cursors
So far so good. I also installed JWM and here's the first problem: I have to use "startx /usr/bin/jwm", otherwise it won't work, though I put the line "exec /usr/bin/jwm" to my .xinitrc.
But that's not important, the main problem is that I cannot see any cursor! There IS a cursor, and it works, but I can't see it...
What else can I do? I googled that issue but didn't find any comparable situation... May the problem be the emulator?

Thanks,
pflaume

w201

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Registered: 2012-10-04

Posts: 289

Re: No pointer visible

Did you see a cursor before installing JWM?

Last edited by w201 (2015-03-31 21:15:36)

pflaume

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Registered: 2015-03-31

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Re: No pointer visible

No, but before I installed JWM (and X) there wasn't any graphical environment which would allow me to use any cursor. And after JWM I tried several other Window Managers (Openbox, Fluxbox, XFWM), not one of them showed me a cursor :S

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: No pointer visible

I linked: ln -s /usr/share/Adwaita/cursors ~/.icons/default/cursors

What happens if you remove the symlink?

You can set the cursor theme using ~/.gtkrc-2.0

gtk-cursor-theme-name="Adwaita"
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0

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w201

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Registered: 2012-10-04

Posts: 289

Re: No pointer visible

No, but before I installed JWM (and X) there wasn't any graphical environment which would allow me to use any cursor. And after JWM I tried several other Window Managers (Openbox, Fluxbox, XFWM), not one of them showed me a cursor :S

On every arch install I get xorg-server and xterm up and running. That gives you a graphical environment to test things out and you can build up from there.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg#Installation