Andreas Bayu wrote:
> I'm so curious about mouse theme behavior differently around my
> workspaces. I have my cursor themed after oxygen. In applications
> windows they show up properly. But in desktop, panels, thunar they
> revert back to default theme cursor. Is this some kind of bug? I've
> search this problem on net, found some (in previous release) but no
> solutions there. I'll be glad if someone can explain what happened
> here. Thanks.
>
> I use xubuntu 16.04 on notebook with intel based CPU.
>
I can't tell you why this happens, or explain it, but I can tell you how
I fixed my system.
This is not really a "fix", it's merely a workaround.
I'm going to assume that your mouse cursor is defaulting to DMZ-White.
That's what my system was doing.
Here are the steps I took. My cursor theme of choice was BlueShinyCursors.
All of this is done in a terminal window. I am purposefully leaving out
some details, if you need more help feel free to ask.
1) First, I installed (copied) BlueShinyCursors into /home/<user>/.icons
2) Copy BlueShinyCursors to /usr/share/icons
Command: "sudo cp -r ~/.icons/BlueShinyCursors /usr/share/icons"
(without the quotes)
3) Change into the /usr/share/icons directory
Command: "cd /usr/share/icons"
4) Verify that BlueShinyCursors was successfully copied here
Command: "ls -l"
BlueShinyCursors folder should be in the list
5) DMZ-White should also be in the "ls -l" list
6) Copy a backup of DMZ-White to your home folder
Command: "cp -r /usr/share/DMZ-White /home/<user>"
Now we're going to fix the problem with a workaround ...
7) Change into the DMZ-White folder
Command: "cd DMZ-White"
8) Just for grins see what's in the folder
Command: "ls -l"
You should see three items:
cursors - this is a folder
cursor.theme
index.theme
9) Now we need to edit the cursor.theme file
Command: " sudo nano cursor.theme"
Change the second line from:
Inherits=DMZ-White
To:
Inherits=BlueShinyCursors (or any theme located in /usr/share/icons)
10) Save the file, close nano, close the terminal, log out, log in, and
your chosen cursor theme should be working as expected.
Hope this helps. YMMV.
jv
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