On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:47, Buchan Milne wrote: > 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.
Oooh, bullseye - I'd actually read those when they were posted but couldn't remember installing zenity so discounted it as a cause, but in fact zenity is there, so that's probably it. Well spotted. ...time passes... yup! Just applied the patch and that fixes it up just right, as well as fixing the display buglets caused by zenity. Thanks, I'll put in a vote for the bug and a comment. > 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). Yes, that would be nice. -- adamw
