Comment 0 for bug 288502

After downloading an X11 mouse theme from kde-look.org, I proceeded to install it in system-settings. After installing the theme (bluecurve), I found that only the main pointer and the background-busy cursors from the theme were being used in KDE applications (GTK-based apps like Firefox seem to respect the rest of the cursors just fine). Things like the busy cursor, text select, hand pointer (for hyperlinks and such), and window-resizing cursors all appeared to be displayed using Oxygen counterparts when using KDE 4 applications.

I even went to the extreme of hacking kdm.conf and it's init.d script to force X11 to use my chosen theme (by exporting XCURSOR_THEME), but even in KDM, some of the Oxygen cursors persisted.

I've tried with several different themes from kde-look.org, all with similar results. The only theme I've found to use all of it's own cursors with all applications (KDE 4 and GTK apps) is the "KDE Classic" theme.

Attached is a screenshot showing the system-settings window and that it doesn't show all of the correct mouse cursors for the "Bluecurve" theme even in the preview area.