Comment 9 for bug 1024482

Just tested again and I can reproduce the problem in XFCE 4.10 in quantal as well. Login with unity-greeter, Settings/Mouse and Touchpad/Theme, change it to something like redglass size 48, every cursor changes but LEFT_PTR.

Logging in with GDM and the cursor changes correctly.

Logging in with lightdm-gtk-greeter, LEFT_PTR not correctly set.

Logging in with lightdm-gtk-greeter without setting the cursor on the root window, cursor changes correctly.

Maybe this is an Ubuntu specific issue, although using the code from my second comment above to set the cursor on the root window in a default Fedora 17 Gnome session, and cursor theme changes and resizing stops working for the default LEFT_PTR, so I am skeptical.