xfce4 mouse cursor themes not used in all applications

Thank you for your bug report. I can confirm this. The new theme is used in a very few apps, for me it isn't used on the desktop, nor in xfce's menu, nor in the preferences of xfce. It's used in some gtk apps such as kazehakase.

It had already been reported upstream.

This is not a bug against xfwm4 but i had to set the upstream watch against it as we don't have a general xfce bugwatch set.

Problem is still there in xubuntu hardy heron. Any workarounds available?

mouse for gui is importance。 can't change cursor themes depress me.

xubuntu 8.04 i386&amd64

I confirm that problem with cursor not changing for Xfce4-panel and other applications is stil present
on LTS version of Xubuntu 8.04 (amd64). It seems that I will not be able to change and see
changed cursor for the next few years, if I am using Xubuntu LTS...

I cannot change cursor themes in Xubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy Heron... It also happened in previous versions.

It displays the correct choice on some apps, but in other like the desktop, bars, panels, etc. it still is displayed the default theme.

I can verify that this is happening in Intrepid Beta running Xfce4 4.4.2.1.

Is this issue still reproducible with Xfce 4.6 in jaunty? Thanks

We can't test this at the moment. There is no way to change the cursor in the default Xubuntu Jaunty 9.04 as of 2009-02-06 daily image. Mouse Preferences does not exist in Settings.

This is still reproducible using Jaunty 9.04 development version updated as of 20090214.

After a complete shutdown / startup, the cursor remains the same in all applications. If it is changed with out a complete system restart, it fails to change in all applications as originally reported.

Is this issue still reproducible in jaunty with Xfce 4.6?

Yep, still reproducible.

This is not a problem with xfconf. It's either a problem with xfce4-settings or with xfce4-session.

It is not an ideal solution, but you might want to try this out:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46883

Still getting this bug in Xubuntu 8.04. Any workarounds?
Saw this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46883, but I dont have a .Xdefaults file!
Thanks for help!

Workaround for this problem:
(Works on Xubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, not sure about other versions.).

Put the theme in
/usr/share/icons/
>>/usr/share/icons/MyTheme

Modify the 'index.theme' in the '/use/share/icons/default' file to look like this:
----------------------------------
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=MyTheme

[Desktop Entry]
GenericName=MyTheme
----------------------------------

I don't know if the GenericName entry is necessary or not, but I am too lazy to check if it is.
Anyways, this works and I have a consistent themed mouse pointer throughout :)

Hope it helps someone!

Doesn't work too on Lucid Lynx without GDM (but work with).
Rvgsd workaround make input impossible and the terminal doesn't start. But the cursor is the right one.

Restart xfwm4 (xfwm4 --replace) do solve the problem though.

Should be fixed in natty (xfce4-settings 4.7.7). Would be better if someone could confirm though.

Could be the firefox 4.0b8 itself, but when I attempted this, the cursor changed in firefox main body, bookmarks and menus only. The cursor did not change on the desktop, panels, or other applications. I don't think this can be considered fixed, myself.

 2011-01-05 06:35
 charlie@wecan: ~ $ apt-cache policy xfce4-settings
xfce4-settings:
  Installed: 4.7.7-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4.7.7-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4.7.7-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

xfce4-settings:
  Installed: 4.8.1-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 4.8.1-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 4.8.1-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Still default cursor on desktop on my machine. Was hoping the last lot of updates would fix it but they didn't.

Echo Charlie Kravetz

Addendum

I downgraded my nvedia drivers because of another bug and ... many of the buttons in applications would not work but by resizing the window(thus putting the buttons in another area of the screen) they were clickable. And the cursor changed to default in parts of Firefox which prevented hiliting text. But when the screen was resized it was different parts of the text where untouchable.

Is the problem any connection with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/747717 ?

I don't think a problem with nvidia cards and drivers not yet available in 2007 when this was first reported are the cause. Further, I have Nvidia, ATI, and Intel video on my three separate computers that all see this issue.

Fixed upstream with <http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/commit/?id=7eff3d69403059aa184310a0f231920b67c3b8e6> (not sure it'll be backported on 4.8, but it'll be in 4.10 anyway).

Bug still exists in 12.04 - this is a confession of failure!!!!!!

Confirm in 12.04 cmon 5 years allready for cursor fix ...

Shouln't we escalate the importance a bit? I mean, a critical part of the ui, and NO FIX IN 5 YEARS?

As Ubuntu is going downhill with unity and all, and Xubuntu becoming the new base distribution in the project, these "minor glitches" have to be fixed!

I replaced the display manager for WDM. Now my cursor theme works, but two strange stripes running back and forth on monitor.

I am running Debian 7.1.0 Wheezy with XFCE 4.8.
This bug is still present, although I think it's an XFCE issue rather than Debian or Ubuntu.

2015 and the bug is still present in Xubuntu 14.04.2 with XFCE 4.12.

Im experiencing this issue in 15.04 vivid, xubuntu. It is irritating as I can only use the white cursor theme, using black means its sometimes white and sometimes black depending on the application.

Pete

"Im experiencing this issue in 15.04 vivid, xubuntu. It is irritating as I can only use the white cursor theme, using black means its sometimes white and sometimes black depending on the application."

Installed Xubuntu 15.04 this past week on two machines and immediately started experiencing this very frustrating problem on both. This is what worked for me:

Set mouse cursor theme to something other than default in the regular settings - In my case DMZ (Black), and I'm assuming your's also since this what we're trying to make work.

Open Thunar as root. Go to File System > usr>share>icons>default. Right click on index.theme then open with Mousepad. Modify Inherits=DMZ-White to Inherits=DMZ-Black.

Save and exit then restart Xubuntu, you should be all set. Tested om my main desktop rig running AMD A8 and on my laptop running older i3. Black cursor theme surviving restarts on both machines and working on all programs I've tested on so far including Cyberfox for Linux with 3rd party theme.

"Open Thunar as root. Go to File System > usr>share>icons>default. Right click on index.theme then open with Mousepad. Modify Inherits=DMZ-White to Inherits=DMZ-Black."

Hi Jason,

Many thanks for this, can confirm that a 'sudo nano /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme' and editing the file to DMZ-Black resolves the issue.

Tested for approx 60 minutes now and everything works as expected :)

Kind regards
Pete

Year is 2015. It has been 8 years and this problem is still occurring. None of the suggestions mentioned in this thread and the common workarounds discussed in other forum threads work for me. Please fix this bug.

Running Xubuntu 14.04.3 64-bit.

This solution actually works! http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=168338

Hey Devs! Can you please patch it? It looks like it is an easy fix. I don't understand why nobody has looked into it over these years.

I've gotten themes to work but setting a custom cursor size does not work, the cursor is the correct size inside of most programs but reverts whenever I move over top panel, desktop or login screen. Tried to change cursor size using various methods, as suggested, but no luck. Why is this bug considered low priority? It's been 8 years, please fix it! Being able to see the mouse cursor can be difficult for anyone with less than 20/20 vision, it's also very helpful for people using larger HD displays. Cursor size needs to remain static, this is a basic accessibility feature.

for the record, i'm using Xubuntu 14.04.3 lts 64-bit

Solved this problem as follows. Now have a non-default theme in place (redglass) with a larger cursor (48, not default 18).

Thanks to all above for ideas.

The solution below was tested on Ubuntu Studio 16.04 with XFCE 4.12.2 and all package updates installed.

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XFCE window manager offers an option to set a non-default mouse theme. I use this to set a large red pointer. The pointer reverts to the system default theme in many applications.

Suggested solution from this forum:

As root, edit

 /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme

to change a directive from the default to desired new default theme;

 Inherits=redglass

Restart XFCE.

Redglass theme remains in place reliably but the cursor is at the default size of 18 rather than the larger 48 I need.

Open Configuration Editor & set

 /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_size = 48

Right click on this directive & choose ‘Set to default’ (requires root privilege).

Restart XFCE

If the altered cursor_size directive is not set as default the cursor is sometimes at sie 18 and sometimes at 48, depending on the application being viewed (Ok in OpenOffice, small in most other apps e.g. Thunar, MySQL Workbench, Ardour4, Sound Converter. Some programs respect the customised theme & others only its default version. Hence the importance of setting the altered cursor_size as a default. I do not know where this default value is stored.key

I tried to reproduce this bug in Xubuntu 18.04 with redglass set to size 48, but the cursor shape or size was never altered by any application.

Can anyone else confirm that this bug is not present in the latest release?

Closing this report.