mouse cursor is not black

[David Gomes]

In Appearance Properties (gnome-appearance-properties) I set my mouse cursor to DMZ (Black). However, all of the mouse icons are black except for the main icon. Loading, Link, Text is black, but the main mouse icon is white.

When I hover Flash Content, it is black as it was on Ubuntu 10.10. I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 and I can't have the main icon black.

This already happened to me on linux mint 11, so I guess it has something to do with Ubuntu 11.

Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

dmz-cursor-theme version: 0.4.3

[David Gomes (davidgomes)]

I'd like to add that when I take screenshots, the mouse pointer is black, but I see it white.

[Jim Bauwens (jimbauwens)]

This bug is caused by compiz. I don't know the exact plugin that does it though.
A workaround for now is to directly edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme and change 'DMZ-White' to the theme of your choice. I don't know if this bug will be fixed, as Ubuntu is switching to Gnome 3, were much of this stuff is handled differently.

[David Gomes (davidgomes)]

That worked Jim, thanks a lot for the help. I agree, though, that it may not be fixed due to moving to GNOME 3. The workaround is good enough for now, though (although I'd like to see it fixed).

[Morgen (jab-mail-business)]

It appears that this bug is still present in Ubuntu 11.10.

[David Gomes (davidgomes)]

In fact, this seems to be an X problem, and it was ported to Linux Mint, and other Ubuntu-based distributions.