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gogglespizano

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Registered: 2007-01-25

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Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

Hi

I'm a brand new Arch user and I'm extremely happy with it.  I've got this one remaining nagging issue that I can't seem to find a solution for. 

I'm using XFCE 4.4 and have my mouse cursor theme set to pArch-24 but when I move the mouse over a firefox window it reverts back to the small black default X11 icons.  I have the gtk-qt-engine installed and any gnome or kde apps I launch use the right mouse theme so it seems to be only firefox (and gdm) where this is happening. 

It's a small issue but I spend 90% of my time in firefox. 

Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

thanks

n8schicht

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Registered: 2006-12-27

Posts: 138

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Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

I once had a similar problem under SuSE 10 (but with KDE), and the following solved this:

- Copy your theme directory to /usr/share/icons/  and then choose  it in the XFCE-Menu (probably you already did this)
- Now create the folder  .icons  under /home/username/  and copy your theme directory there as well, and also copy the default folder from /usr/share/icons/ there
- In this default folder you now have to edit the file index.theme and replace (or create) there a line that says Inherits=core with Inherits=name_of_your_icon_directory (spell it the same way, with capital and small letters)

Save this, log off, log on, maybe this solves the problem with firefox. For me it did back then.

EDIT: I just realised that there is no longer a default-folder under /usr/share/icons/
Hm, forget what I wrote, or try to create it by yourself (copy your icon directory to the name default and then edit the file). Don't know if it will work...

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bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

you may add

gtk-cursor-theme-name="your theme"

in ~/.gtkrc-2.0

picpak

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Registered: 2006-12-02

Posts: 89

Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

Or, you may also add:

Xcursor.theme: your theme

to ~/.Xdefaults.

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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

For the record:
firefox doesn't use the Xcursor setting.  It uses the cursor from somewhere else... gtk, I'd guess, but gconf works as well.

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gogglespizano

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Registered: 2007-01-25

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Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

Thanks for all the suggestions

For the record, the solution was pretty simple.  I just mad a symlink to default under /usr/share/icons pointing to the them I wanted to use.  That took care of the icon them for firefox and gdm.

Andy Mack

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Registered: 2008-06-16

Posts: 133

Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

Sorry but could you explain how you did the syslink? I'm having the same irritating problem and would like to fix it. Im using the default red handhelds cursor but defaults to the horrible black one when it shows busy in firefox.

Thankyou
Andy

Last edited by Andy Mack (2008-09-13 10:20:13)

Miles28

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From: Spain

Registered: 2008-08-31

Posts: 88

Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

Same issue, it's a small problem but I would like to get theme mouse working properly with Firefox.

How is the syslink solution?

Thanks in advance.

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sm4tik

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From: Finland, Jyväskylä

Registered: 2006-11-05

Posts: 248

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Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

Hi,
It's been a while since my last xfce session, but I remember I had to edit my ~/.xinitrc to start xfce4 with

exec startxfce4

So no xfce4-session or whatever other script there might be. I've no idea if this still is the case and currently I don't have xfce intalled so I can't really do any tests.

PierreR

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Registered: 2008-11-10

Posts: 58

Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

I am not sure where Firefox is getting its setting for the cursor theme. It does not respect the configuration set by gconf-editor or the .xdefault file.

If I create a sym link named default and pointing to my theme in /usr/share/icons then I have got the right theme but the size is way too large.

Any idea about how to set this ?

Thanks

PierreR

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Registered: 2008-11-10

Posts: 58

Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

Just to clarify the only way to get it right is to force X to read my gnome theme by using gnome-control-center everytime I log in. I am not using gnome but xmonad. I haven't launched any gnome daemon either so my desktop should be pretty independant of gnome.

reed9

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Registered: 2008-06-12

Posts: 77

Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

Create a file, if it doesn't exist at /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme

The contents of the file should read:

[icon theme]
Inherits=<Name of icon theme>

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

PierreR

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Registered: 2008-11-10

Posts: 58

Re: Firefox mouse cursor using default X11 icons

Yep I have tried this but the size of the cursor is still bigger than in non gtk app. I have tried to specify a size in the default.theme without much success.

I have got the right theme but the cursor wrong size.

Thanks for the advice.