Compiz doesn't appear to respect GNOME's mouse theme setting.

[Luke Yelavich]

When using compiz with a mouse theme other than the default, and the mouse size changed, only some areas of the screen show the correct mouse arrow, depending on what window the mouse cursor is over.

The easiest way to reproduce this is in a classic GNOME session, and as follows:

1. Go into appearance preferences, go to the theme page, and click on customize.
2. In the window that opens, go to the pointer page, and choose the DMZ Black theme.
3. Adjust the cursor size to the biggest possible setting.
4. Open gedit, and make sure only gedit is the only open window, so that you have gedit and the desktop behind it.
5. Move the mouse cursor over the window border between the desktop and the gedit window. Notice the grab handle is the correct image for the mouse theme, and in gedit where the cursor image is correct, but for the desktop, the cursor image is the default white small cursor.

 affects ubuntu/compiz
 status triaged
 tag a11y

[zeruke (oninekoze)]

you can also see this with using unity and the only way(by what i'v seen) around it right now is by going through what is shown at http://www.webupd8.org/2010/08/how-to-change-mouse-cursor-theme-in.html

this can become very annoying at times so it would be good if a fix can be done so not to have to go through those steps

[Ishimaru Chiaki (ishimaru-chiaki)]

Hello,

I have the same problem, but under Xubuntu 12.04 ! This is really annoying for I have bad vision ! I have this issue since Lucid, and almost everytime I verified in newer versions, this bug remains unfixed !
When I was on Lucid/Gnome, I used to disable Compiz effects, but now under XFCE, it's impossible, for Compiz isn't even installed ! And don't ask me to switch from "Xubuntu session" to "Xfce session" again, for I had to reboot into recovery mode to remove .xsession-errors and .Xauthority in my home folder because I couldn't log into my session after I tried this switch !!