DMZ-White theme shows gray square in place of curson on Ubuntu 24.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dmz-cursor-theme (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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"Just installed Ubuntu server 22.04 and as I needed a DE, followed some tutorials where most of them suggested that I can install gnome (or ubuntu-desktop) using the tasksel command.
After doing so I encountered two problems: the mouse pointer on desktop is showing as a solid gray square ⬛ and the hotspot is at upper left corner. However when I run any gui app the pointer is drawn perfectly fine.
How can I fix this issues?"
And the top answer, indicating it's happening more for 24.04:
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I faced the same problem on Ubuntu 24.04 beta, on GNOME / Ubuntu desktops, using my preferred cursor theme DMZ-White. When the mouse is over the top bar or the dock/launcher (whatever it's called), the mouse pointer is a light gray (almost white) square.
It seems to me that the icon theme is missing the default file. For me this solution worked:
Check which cursor theme you're using. Start gnome-tweaks and go to Appearance -> Styles -> Cursor.
In a terminal, navigate to its directory under /usr/share/icons and then the cursors subdirectory underneath, e.g.
cd /usr/share/
(The cursor theme's name may not directly map to the filesystem directory name, use common sense to find it.)
Then create the missing symbolic link (or copy the file):
sudo ln -s left_ptr default
Then switch to a different cursor theme in gnome-tweaks and back to this one, for the change to take effect. Or log out and log back in."
I can confirm that I am also affected by this bug, and the suggested workaround appears to fix the issue.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.