Enlightenment and X cursor

djf_jeff · Apprentice Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 174 Location: Quebec

I have Xfree 4.3-r2 installed and enlightenment 0.16.5-r4.

I use the gentoo-blue cursor and when i'm in mozilla and other apps, it work. But it dont work in Eterm or on the E desktop. It switch to a black cursor.

Can I make the E cursor similar to the X cursor?

hook · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 6:04 am Post subject:

try using the same X cursor as your E cursor ...i've never successfully used E, but i think itshould work ...it's probably the same cursor, just a different app that loads it (just like the difference between bsetroot and Esetroot)
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jokerbone · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Columbia, MD

E cursors are part of the E theme that you are using. When E came out, it was a great feature

To get rid of E's old cursors you'll have to modify the theme package you are using - if you completely remove the cursor files from the theme, it will fail to load them and default to nice X 4.3 cursors.

Not using 4.3 currently but look in
~/.enlightenment/theme/cursors

Kinda hackish but getting rid of the cursors directory all together may do the trick.

jokerbone · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Columbia, MD

Thanks to this patch, E 16 can use native X4.3 cursors. Check E out of cvs as it has seen a bit of activity since 4.3 was released and already contains the patch.

The post mentions but does not provide the cursors.cfg you'll need. This can probably be improved but it works for me - save in the path below and clear your e config cache then reload the theme.

~/.enlightenment/themes/yourtheme/cursors/cursors.cfg

bestel · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 11:12 pm Post subject:

I've browsed the CVS repositery and read some changes about the native cursor patch. Unfortunatly the link that you provide in your previous message to download this patch is broken.

I don't want to install the CVS version manually, so I'm waiting for a new ebuild

Thanks a lot for your aswers !

abracadaver · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 125

i can't get this to work...i'm using the latest cvs version of e16 and when i replace the cursors.cfg file of my theme all i get is a black X for a cursor...any suggestions? the only difference i can see is that my themes are in /usr/share/enlightenment/themes but that shouldn't make any difference, i checked all the permisions of the cursors and files

jokerbone · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Columbia, MD

abracadaver · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 125

for some reason my Maintanance menu dissapeared since upgrading to 16.6 so I was unable to clear the cache that way, previously i just logged out and restarted X, that does not work, you must clear cache with the econfig tool "e_cache_clean" (which is how it does it via the maintanance menu)
its nice to have uniform cursors :]