On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote:

> As topic :). As of today, choose_cursor just doesn't seem to work. When
> certain packages are updated (not sure which, guess it might be XFree),
> root's cursor reverts to core (from my normal choice, Silver), and my
> fix for this is usually just to su to root then run choose_cursor and
> set it back to Silver. Doing this today just didn't work at all, so as a
> test I ran it as my normal user, and it switched the cursor back to
> core. I remembered how to set it manually, and noticed that the relevant
> files - ~/.icons/default/index.theme and
> /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme - now read:
> 
> [Icon Theme]
> Inherits=
> 
> I set them to:
> 
> [Icon Theme]
> Inherits=Silver
> 
> and got my cursors back. So it seems choose_cursor is making the wrong
> modification to the file for some reason.
> 

Adam, do you run GNOME? Do you have zenity installed? If so, you might be 
bitten by a bug in zenity:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4925

(I guess I could confirm it myself, but someone else really should).

There is a patch attached, which fixes a *number* of issues with zenity's 
claimed emulation of gdialog, could you try it? Maybe Mr Crozat needs to 
be made aware of it, since AFAIK zenity is now part of GNOME? And I am not 
sure Austin has rights to fix it now it's in main.

Oh, you can always:
1)Try it in KDE, or unset GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID
2)Unset DISPLAY, and make sure you have cdialog installed
3)Uninstall zenity, and ensure you have Xdialog installed.

Of course, the better solution to you fixing your 
/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme all the time is for flepied to make 
it %config(noreplace).

Regards,
Buchan

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