On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 23:49, Jason Komar wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 16:41, Bret Baptist wrote: > > I updated my cooker to the newest XFree86 last night and noticed that the > > cursor was back to the old boring style. I went on a search and found out > > that there is no /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme to be found. > > In fact the icons directory is missing! What is the deal? > > > > Here are the versions of XFree86: > > XFree86-server-4.2.99.5-0.20030127.1mdk > > XFree86-libs-4.2.99.5-0.20030127.1mdk > > XFree86-4.2.99.5-0.20030127.1mdk > > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.99.5-0.20030127.1mdk > > XFree86-xfs-4.2.99.5-0.20030127.1mdk > > XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.99.5-0.20030127.1mdk > > > > Thanks! > > I noticed the same thing. A temporary work-around is to create a > .Xdefaults file in your home directory. Mine contains: > > # default user settings for X > ------- > Xcursor.size: 16 > Xcursor.theme: whiteglass > ------- > # eof
How do you mean, temporary workaround? This isn't a bug, it's a design choice. The reversion to old cursors is mentioned in the changelog of the latest X as something MDK have decided to do. -- adamw
