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SJ

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[Solved] i3: no/wrong mouse cursor after boot

There were a lot of updates so I can't pin down the issue to a specific package. I assume it's i3-gaps, but could also be related to gtk3 or xorg-server.
I'm using the cursors provided by elementary-icon theme.
Now after a boot, i3 starts up as usual, but no cursor is shown. I can get a cursor if I open an application window via shortcut. Inside this newly opened window, the cursor is the correct one, but if I move the cursor out (new workspace, status bar, ...) the wrong cursor is shown (for me its the cursor in the shape of an X, I'd expect it to be the classical pointer arrow).

Simply running lxappearence (no need to do anything in there) fixes the issue, but only until the next boot.

Last edited by SJ (2020-05-08 17:07:36)

zan

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Re: [Solved] i3: no/wrong mouse cursor after boot

In case it's gtk3 you could check ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini to see what gtk-cursor-theme-name is set to and set it to your preferred cursor theme if it's not already.

Edit: it probably isn't the above, check out this post.

Last edited by zan (2020-05-08 11:54:42)

seth

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Re: [Solved] i3: no/wrong mouse cursor after boot

How do you configure the cursor theme?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cu … _resources
Also try "xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr "

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SJ

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Re: [Solved] i3: no/wrong mouse cursor after boot

The following files should configure my system: ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, which sets the icon and the cursor theme to elementary. ~/.icons/default/index.theme, which again sets the theme to elementary. And there is /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme, which sets the theme to Adwaita. I don't have a .Xresources file.

The solution with xsetroot does work!

But since it was working before I tried a few more things, and changing the theme in /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme to elementary does also work, without the need for xsetroot. Now, I don't really know why this edit was needed, because the index.theme file in my home directory should be prioritized. But for now I'll mark this as solved.

seth

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Re: [Solved] i3: no/wrong mouse cursor after boot

Why would i3 read ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini ?
Sure you used elementary before and didn't lose adwaita w/ the update?
There's unfortunately no common way to set the theme and you best have it in Xresources or Xdefaults for clients that don't adhere to XDG or random toolkit definitions :-(

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SJ

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Re: [Solved] i3: no/wrong mouse cursor after boot

@seth Not !~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, but ~/.icons/default/index.theme. The latter should have nothing to do with GTK. Unfortunately I can't reproduce all the settings from before. Adwaita is still installed and switching to it in lxappearence does also change the icons. Anyway, thanks for the help. Gave me a good overview which config files are where and at least a clue on how they all interact.