Oxygen cursor theme showing up when other is selected

[Henrik Pauli]

Whenever I install KDE4 to try it, the Oxygen cursor theme gets installed (which, I’m sorry, but I really really really don’t like and makes me nauseous and upset). It appears however, that no matter that I select another theme, Oxygen will try to appear as often as possible to make my life miserable. I do NOT want to see it in my KDE3 apps when I have CLEARLY selected the Ubuntu DMZ theme or the Bluecurve theme I installed. I do NOT want to see it in my KDE4 apps, because I have also clearly selected otherwise. And I do not want to see it in my Gtk apps for the exact same reason. Why is it so... ubiquitous? Even so far that my settings are not honoured?

Yes, uninstalling it fixes my problem, but that also makes the metapackage for the KDE4 desktop uninstalled, which I want to avoid. It’s fine if it just sits in my hard drive, but I do not want to ever see it again on my screen.

This has been so since the theme has first appeared, but only now did I bother reporting it.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

When I change the cursor theme in systemsettings KDE3, KDE4, and GTK apps all respect this settings.
I have a Kubuntu-KDE4 Hardy installation with the KDE 4.1 beta2 packages.

[Henrik Pauli (ralesk)]

As is my luck, by the time I open my mouth about it, it starts to behave like it should. So many times I had to remove the cursor set just so it wouldn’t pop up randomly… It seems it finally does work, needs a few restarts and it’s clear.

Aside: is it me or, are the NESW and NWSE cursors mixed up in KDE4 (if I choose the DMZ theme or the {red|white}glass ones, the corner resize arrows will be tangential rather than going through the corner, Oxygen and the thing called “default KDE theme” look right).

[Adam Spain (adamspain)]

This sounds like it could be related to bug #288502. There is definitely something a bit odd about how KDE4 handles cursor themes, as I have the same problem in KDE4 of setting a different cursor theme and the oxygen cursors still being used sometimes instead.