No cursor theme in XGL / XFCE4

No matter where in my system I set my cursor theme, it's always the default black theme. What can I do to make my cursor theme visible in XGL / XFCE? I'm launching them by running startxgl 0 xfce nvidia.

wimac wrote:
try putting:
export XCURSOR_THEME="Bluecurve"
in your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
replace Bluecurve with the theme of your choice and restart X that should do it...
There isn't any such file. ~/.config/openbox just has a "lxde-rc.xml" in it.
fwojciec, that worked. Thanks a million. Looks like I'm juuuuust about set on this thing. A few more hiccups to figure out and I'll be golden (all related to cosmetics).

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Hey,
when I move my mouse cursor over the desktop, it uses the Vanilla-DMZ theme, which is what I've set for it to use in the Mouse config GUI in XFCE. But as soon as I bring up the right-click menu, click the panel or move into a window using GTK, the cursor pointer changes to a very plain, black one. However, moving the cursor over a link in a browser, say, the "pointing hand" is the one from DMZ. What is going on? Also, moving the mouse over VLC (which is the only qt app I use at the moment) shows the proper pointer as the empty desktop does.
Output of xrand -query:
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.autohint: 0
Xft.hinting: -1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb
Xcursor.theme: Vanilla-DMZ
Xcursor.theme_core: true
Xcursor.size: 0
Thanks for any help!
Last edited by mariusmeyer (2011-12-01 09:16:28)

Okey, I've done some looking around, and it seems to me that X11 only uses the wrong arrow pointer, and only in places where gtk does the job. In VLC, as mentioned, Vanilla-DMZ is used throughout. But in all gtk-apps, be they gtk2 or gtk3, ONLY the basic arrow pointer is swapped for a very plain, black one. The other icons (resize-window, follow links etc.) are still DMZ.
I've made a symlink called default in ~/.icons/ that points to the Vanilla-DMZ folder in /usr/share/icons/, but this didn't help. I've also removed the parts that specify the cursor theme in ~/.config/xfce4/something/xsettings.xml and did a logout-login, but the problem presented just like before, only now xrdb -query reported
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Last edited by hellolj (2014-02-13 23:12:48)

This walks around the problem nicely. Actually, it saved me some time on figuring how to change i3-wn's cursor theme as well.
Many thanks!
Chazza wrote:
A good way to ensure cursor theme consistency is to create an index.theme file.
mkdir /usr/share/icons/default
vi /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
If you want to make sure the Adwaita cursor theme is always used then copy the following into your file:
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Adwaita
Look in /usr/share/icons to find the correct name for your cursor theme.
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Hi guys, I used to change my cursor theme modifying /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/.? (I don't remember the name of that file), what about Xorg 7.0?, where should I put my cursor theme, and where make it default?

Moo-Crumpus wrote:I don't have that folder, 2. Creating one and adding the files had no effects at all. Btw the mixture of xorg mouse cursors and themes, icons in one folder is really ugly.
i totally agree. and although strictly speaking i guess they *are* icons, wouldn't it have been better for X to specify them as cursors, e.g. in the index.theme, etc.?
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I've just started using awesomeWM and it's quite neat. My problem is that my cursor theme doesn't get applied completely. It's all fine in apps, but appears without theme when mouse is over the bar and root window.
My setup info here:
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Last edited by lolilolicon (2009-10-09 14:32:20)

Got it now. xsetroot needs the display if you've got a multihead setup or I guess it just doesn't bother. (Alternately I might just have a weird multihead setup. Nvidia with one rotated screen in TwinView which isn't even supposed to work.)
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xsetroot -d :0.1 -cursor_name left_ptr
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[SOLVED]Cursor theme changes to default in Firefox and Thunderbird

When i use facebook, when the page loads something like photos or my profile, the cursor changes to default X11.
I use KDE Oxygen Black theme so the proper cursor theme when the page loads must be the arrow with the two bubbles rotating around, but i get the default skinny black cursor with a clock.
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I have Oxygen Black theme in KDM too.
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PD: sorry if you notice my bad english .
Last edited by Hyugga (2012-03-16 15:39:16)

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Setting cursor theme [solved]

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Last edited by pressh (2007-11-14 20:56:33)

What Ramses de Norre describes will change the cursor for your user only, you might, however, want to change it system-wide (that way whatever login manager you use will have the same cursor theme as your desktop, for example).
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anrxc wrote:
XCB is X11 C Bindings, not more...
Good thing you told us. One year later.
The year passed, but xcb hasn't support of libxcursor "yet". ;)
And it will never support it... XCB is more low-level library then libxcursor (libxcursor depends on xlib and xlib depends on xcb in arch). It's more correct to told people "there are no library for supporting format of xcursor files without xlib dependency".
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[SOLVED] trying to change cursor theme and gconf-editor wont work

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Last edited by icyfox101 (2013-05-29 09:31:09)

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Last edited by SomeGuyDude (2008-10-13 01:20:40)

wimac wrote:
try putting:
export XCURSOR_THEME="Bluecurve"
in your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
replace Bluecurve with the theme of your choice and restart X that should do it...
There isn't any such file. ~/.config/openbox just has a "lxde-rc.xml" in it.
fwojciec, that worked. Thanks a million. Looks like I'm juuuuust about set on this thing. A few more hiccups to figure out and I'll be golden (all related to cosmetics).

[solved] Cursor themes are not consistant

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Last edited by synthead (2008-04-16 01:24:36)

Hm, I'm still having the same problem. Sometimes the default black x mouse cursor comes through, for example in firefox. This only happens in XFCE, not in IceWM or KDE. What's wrong here? Why are the mouse theme settings in the XCFE settings not consistent?
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Last edited by blackhole (2009-03-10 08:26:54)

X11 Cursor Theme doesn't display correctly [SOLVER]

The title explains it up,
no matter how full of a theme I try to install some pointers are not correctly displayed. Namely, click (the one displayed when you get over a link) and type cursors.
I'm pretty sure my themes are all set but some types are showing the former themes.
What could be missing?
Edit: lxappearance was mixing things up.
Last edited by Gulver (2013-11-25 09:21:52)

I don't have this problem.
Which OS are you on?
Does this happen with all your sites or just one?
Are you working with valid HTML and CSS code?
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
Can you post a link to a page in which this occurs?
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Hi all
I have recently installed arch and XFCE4 as my desktop environtment everything went well for a few days.
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Last edited by archlux (2013-06-23 14:29:01)

Be sure you cursor theme is complete. Which one are you trying to use? Did you try setting it up from directly X confs?
There must be an option in window manager or window manager tweaks about overlapping taskbar. You can use alt+left mouse to move your windows till it is configured.
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Last edited by Gulver (2013-06-23 17:59:47)

No cursor theme in XGL / XFCE4

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