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shisbosd
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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:00 am Post subject: SOLVED: how do I become uniform Xcursor themes |
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My problem is probably easily fixed. I can't figure out how to keep my xcursor from switching from the theme I have set (gentoo-silver) in my ~/.Xresources to the default when I hover over different applications. It seems to be the default for gtk and my desktop, but take on the theme I want to apply in Firefox, skype, or my file manager. I've tried adding | Code: | | Inherits=gentoo-silver |
in usr/share/icons/default/index.theme, or ~/.gtkrc-2.0(and 3.0)/index.theme, or /etc/gtkrc/index.theme. I also tried moving the folder gentoo-silver to ~/.icons but that solved nothing, X already knew where to find them. I found gcursor, an application which is so old it doesn't exist. I have not tried gconf yet. I'm using the i3 window manager.
PS: off topic but if anyone could relinquish the knowledge of how to permanently change the font of dmenu, I could have a fully uniform desktop (if I solve the topic of this thread, of course)
I solved the problem by copying the theme from /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/ to ~.
I started having this problem last year. Excuse me while I sweatily palm my face.
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i92guboj
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:13 am Post subject: |
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This is the kind of thing that makes X a pain sometimes, since each app/toolkit seems to think its way is the right way.
Most legacy X apps do use .Xdefaults, the problem is that for some reason not all of them seem to parse that file directly. To tell the truth, I never looked on how the thing works so take all I say with a grain of salt. I have found that, in order to activate the last changes you need to run this in any terminal inside X:
In that file, you can put the cursor settings:
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Xcursor.theme: ComixCursors-White
Xcursor.size: 48
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This can, of course, be put into ~/.xinitrc or autostarted in a wrapper from whatever DE you are using. That depends on how to start the X session.
That will take rid of legacy apps. More modern ones (gtk and qt-based) attend to their tookit configuration but also to the mechanism configured under /usr/share/themes/default (or ~/.themes/default). Which is the "inherit" line you posted above. |
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shisbosd
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I've tried all of this without success. Thanks for the suggestions though! I'm doubting whether I'll ever figure it out, I'm just going to use the regular X cursor for now. |
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i92guboj
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Ok, what applications do exhibit the problem? Which ones don't show the correct cursor theme? Are all of the problematic apps tied to a given toolkit (i.e. gtk+ or qt)?
Or maybe the theme is wrong only when you are not hovering a window (that's the root window)?
About dmenu, the font is configured in the application command line, for example, I use this script to launch my dmenu:
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export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"
#dmenu_run -i -fn "xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=15" \
dmenu_run -i -fn "xft:Ubuntu Mono:size=15" \
-nb '#2e2c2e' -nf '#c0c0c0' -sb '#0E4E6F' -sf '#ffffff'
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Note that dmenu has an xft use flag. You can't use true type fonts if that's disabled. |
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shisbosd
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| It looks like all the applications which use GTK use the default xcursor. Although Firefox uses the theme I set. My bare desktop and, window decorations, and status bar all use the default cursor. Thanks for the help with dmenu, I didn't know it was a script, so I thought that dmenu_run -fn was only usable from command line. I tried setting gtk-cursor-theme-name in /usr/share/icons/default. |
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HerrSchafer
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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A poor, dirty and not technical (but very quick) solution is to copy your cursors files over the default cursors as root.
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