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xfwm4 package

  1. Bug #157447
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 157447

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Jason Byrne (jasonbyrne-att) wrote :

"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.