[solved] cursor theme not used for all programs

onexused · 2018-07-21 14:13:57

It seems the cursor theme I've chosen isn't applied automatically when I log in; I have to open lxappearance (which loads/applies it). The cursor theme then shows properly on most programs, but urxvt (which is autostarted) and openbox's menus still use the default cursor theme, rather than mine.
- openbox as wm & de
- lightdm to login
- lxappearance to choose themes
- I don't know whether I have any kind of settings daemon running.

What should I do to get the cursor theme to apply automatically when I log in and show for all programs?

Last edited by onexused (2018-07-23 16:01:07)

seth · 2018-07-21 14:34:58

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cu … figuration
Though the wiki suggests lxappearance would write the config, thus setting the theme permanently?

onexused · 2018-07-21 16:41:22

Yet in 2 hours of uptime since I wrote the post, the cursor theme on the root window has reverted to the default (opening lxappearance changed it back to the one I chose). Firefox and medit still used my chosen theme. Urxvt uses the default theme no matter what I do.

seth · 2018-07-21 17:02:46

Are you saying ~/.icons/default/index.theme gets edited forth and back?

onexused · 2018-07-21 22:26:56

~/.icons/default/index.theme currently says

[Icon Theme]
Name=Default
Comment=Default Cursor Theme
Inherits=Oxygen 01 Yellow

which is what I set, and I see that when the pointer is over Firefox and some other programs, but when the pointer is over the root window, urxvt, thunar, and some other windows, I see a black theme. It looks like Adwaita, which are installed in /usr/share/icons (and I see now that's the one in /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme).

seth · 2018-07-22 05:45:48

Notice that the theme will not update easily over exising windows, so it's important to know what the file says before eg. starting openbox.

xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr

should update it over the root window.

I must say that urxvt does not read the index.theme, it picks the theme from ~/.Xdefaults, which should contain

Xcursor.theme: Oxygen 01 Yellow

And on an additional caveat: I don't have a single theme that contains blanks, no idea whether that's causing trouble.

onexused · 2018-07-23 15:55:28

More control = less "just works", I guess. Thanks for your help. It looks like the space in the name *was* causing problems, as neither changing .Xdefaults nor running xsetroot helped until I changed that and chose the newly named theme in lxrandr.

Last edited by onexused (2018-07-23 16:00:50)

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[solved] cursor theme not used for all programs

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