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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unwanted cursor change
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:11:36
Message-Id: 20150320131127.GC1067@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: unwanted cursor change by Nikos Chantziaras
1 150316 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 16/03/15 03:58, Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> Yesterday, I updated to gtk+-3.14.9 ,
4 >> which required installation of x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme .
5 >> This new unwanted pkg created a dir under /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11
6 >> & a symbolic link 'default->Adwaita', which changed my mouse cursor.
7 >> Not liking the new cursor, I did some research, found the dir responsible,
8 >> did 'mv default default-dft', restarted X & restored the old cursor.
9 >> This looks to me like a bug. Does anyone have comments before I file it ?
10 > I don't think any cursor package should be setting the default on its own.
11 > Looks like a bug. Most people don't notice, because they have
12 > a cursor theme set in the preferences of their desktop environment
13 > and thus the "default" symlink does nothing,
14 > but that doesn't mean it should be set by a package.
15
16 I have submitted Bug # 543902 .
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