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erg0t

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Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 5

cursor issues

Hi, I installed some cursor themes but they only work on qt apps.
I have

Xcursor*theme: aero

in .Xdefaults

And

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=aero

in /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme

The cursor theme works on qt apps, but on gtk or others I got a black cross

mentallaxative

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-07-14

Posts: 134

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Re: cursor issues

By any chance, are you using Ratpoison?

I am unsure if this affects other window managers as well, but I had to put exec xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr in the .ratpoisonrc file that loads up at the start to change the X cursor to the default left pointer. I suppose you would put the same command in whatever startup file your window manager calls up.

XFire

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From: UK

Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 192

Re: cursor issues

Try

Xcursor.theme: aero

In .Xdefaults. Mine works in Openbox and I haven't edited the second /usr/share...

For your .xinitrc add

~/.Xdefaults &

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erg0t

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Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 5

Re: cursor issues

Im using slim + xmonad, I added the xsetroot to .xinitrc but the problem persist

Last edited by erg0t (2008-07-15 00:50:40)

thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,560

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Re: cursor issues

[thayer@dublin:~] $ cat .Xdefaults
...
Xcursor*theme:    Vanilla-DMZ-AA
...

Try something like that, as XFire suggested.

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schivmeister

Developer/TU

From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 971

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Re: cursor issues

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X11_Cursors

You either want local or global change

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