[SOLVED] Cursor theme not applied to all windows

kormpu · 2020-12-25 01:03:21

For some reason my cursor theme does not work on certain windows(such as polybar). Running lxappearance fixes that but it is never a permanent fix. What is causing this?

Last edited by kormpu (2020-12-26 20:02:31)

seth · 2020-12-25 07:57:09

Something…
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

What do you see intead, did you configure the theme in ~/.Xresources and when and how do you load that database?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cursor_themes

kormpu · 2020-12-25 14:55:55

It looks like it is showing the default adwaita black cursor instead. My Xresources file wasn't there anymore so I remade it and put

Xcursor.theme: Breeze_Hacked

in it

Unfortunately though, it doesn't seem to be loaded by xrdb when running xrdb -load .Xresources

seth · 2020-12-25 18:07:36

xrdb -q

nb. that loading the resources will not impact running processes.

kormpu · 2020-12-25 22:13:25

Yea I knew that but I put it in my xinitrc it wasn't doing it either.

kormpu · 2020-12-25 22:18:33

Xrdb is showing it to have loaded the cursor in xrdb -q.

btw, what do you mean by "nb."?

seth · 2020-12-26 08:23:23

"nota bene"

Please post your xinitrc and the output of "xrdb -q" (or your xresources)

kormpu · 2020-12-26 16:54:01

.xinitrc:
https://gist.github.com/papuSpartan/b11 … febe83748e

xrdb -q output:
https://gist.github.com/papuSpartan/8c6 … b9a0ea86c2

seth · 2020-12-26 17:17:12

Your xinitrc is broken (last link below…) but that's not the problem (would have if you'd forked the xrdb call)

What could be a problem is the explicit "Xcursor.size: 30", esp. if the theme doesn't provide a 30px cursor.
What happens w/o that?

Alternatively "Breeze_Hacked" might be incomplete. Source? Do you have the Breeze theme as well (assuming this is inherited and just altered for few cursors)

kormpu · 2020-12-26 17:41:59

Commenting the size line didn't change anything. I have breeze, breeze-gtk, breeze-icons, and breeze-hacked-cursor-theme installed.

seth · 2020-12-26 18:21:38

breeze-hacked-cursor-theme apparently has at least one dead link and It doesn't eg. "Inherits=Breeze" in the "[Icon Theme]" definition.
Do you have the same problems w/ eg. Breeze? What if you inherit that theme and fix the stale symlink?

kormpu · 2020-12-26 18:49:24

If i set the theme to "Breeze" in .Xresources and the gtk3.0 settings, it seems to just use the "kde classic" theme for everything except what was using adwaita before(that stuff is still using adwaita).

seth · 2020-12-26 19:09:58

This one?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/polybar/

What else (maybe there's a pattern)?

kormpu · 2020-12-26 19:16:39

currently I have polybar-git installed but have been unable to update it due to Cmake erroring with

CMake Error at lib/xpp/CMakeLists.txt:75 (message):
  Missing required python module: xcbgen

But it's not just programs like polybar, it's also the root window, where it displays the adwaita cursor when im just hovering over my desktop/wallpaper.

Some other programs that use the adwaita cursor are: minecraft, nvidia-settings, gimp, and nautilus

Last edited by kormpu (2020-12-26 19:19:38)

seth · 2020-12-26 19:20:10

Does it update for

xsetroot -cursor_name right_ptr

(this intentioanally reverses the direction, assuming you're currently using the left_ptr)

kormpu · 2020-12-26 19:23:11

that does fix it (though it's the wrong direction as you said).

seth · 2020-12-26 19:24:36

"left_ptr" - does that return to the adwaita cursor?

kormpu · 2020-12-26 19:28:33

Nope, already tried that before your post and it makes everything function like you would expect with the cursor being using on everything.

seth · 2020-12-26 19:30:49

Put it into your xinitrc.
Edit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cu … ult_cursor

For the records, when we're talking about the adwaita cursor, is that something that looks like an arrow or something like a cross "x"?

Last edited by seth (2020-12-26 19:34:03)

kormpu · 2020-12-26 19:59:12

It's not the X cursor it's the actual left_ptr that adwaita uses that you can see if you were to look at it in lxappearance.

Thanks for the help, I'll mark it as solved

Last edited by kormpu (2020-12-26 20:02:45)

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