Changing cursors does not work properly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
When changing cursors from the appearance preferences in Ubuntu 10.4 (this worked fine in Ubuntu 9.10 on the same system, so this is only a problem in Lucid Lynx) the cursor is not completely switched. This happens both when changing to custom cursors and when changing to built-in cursors such as DMZ-Black.
What happens is that the correct cursor is used sometimes (I found that the text selection I-beam cursor was always used correctly, and the correct cursors display when overtop of certain programs such as firefox, but in most cases the default DMZ-White cursors are shown instead of the ones it should be showing.
I managed to "fix" this problem by changing the symbolic link in /etc/alternativ
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 17 18:01:01 2010
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-173, 173.14.22, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 195.36.15, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 06/23/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.08
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 30F4
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 99.47
dmi.chassis.type: 14
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic
affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
If you're having the same problem as me, here's a shell script that should fix the problem (you'll have to restart after using it for it to take effect... actually you can probably just restart X instead of the whole computer).
To use it, just give the name of the cursor theme you want to change to as an argument.