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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: unwanted cursor change
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:10:54
Message-Id: me5okc$u6p$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] unwanted cursor change by Philip Webb
1 On 16/03/15 03:58, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > Yesterday, I updated to gtk+-3.14.9 ,
3 > which required installation of x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme .
4 > This new unwanted pkg created a dir under /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11
5 > & a symbolic link 'default->Adwaita', which changed my mouse cursor.
6 > Not liking the new cursor, I did some research, found the dir responsible,
7 > did 'mv default default-dft', restarted X & restored the old cursor.
8 >
9 > This looks to me like a bug. Does anyone have comments before I file it ?
10
11 Yeah, I don't think any cursor package should be setting the default on
12 its own.
13
14 Looks like a bug. Most people don't notice because they have a cursor
15 theme set in the preferences of their desktop environment and thus the
16 "default" symlink does nothing. But that doesn't mean it should be set
17 by a package.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unwanted cursor change Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>