Mouse pointer themes do not work after Lucid upgrade

[Алексей Капранов (Alex Kapranoff)]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

After recent upgrade in Lucid (29-31 March 2010) my mouse pointer reverted to default and I cannot change it back to large whiteglass. Changing mouse pointer properties in my theme in gnome-appearance-preferences does nothing. Before the upgrade (in Intrepid and earlier Lucid) the pointer changed right in place, in real time. I tried rebooting after changing pointer settings to no avail.

Mouse pointer settings work fine in a fresh guest session though so I presume settings format was changed and I am stuck with the old one or something.

Can anybody help? The default mouse pointer is too small for me, I hardly see it. I always use the largest one.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: abe35884650c6355b5aed2e790b86dde
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Wed Mar 31 19:57:33 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[caj411 (cajones)]

I have a similar problem. Under my customized theme, my selected mouse pointer does not appear EXCEPT when I perform a mouseover, then I see the pointer I have selected, otherwise it is the default pointer.

[Jorge Silva (jorge-silva)]

I don't think this is necessary a duplicate of bug #459647 since, at least in my case, it had not happened on karmic at all. There must be something wrong with the Lucid upgrade or packages specifically.

[Jorge Silva (jorge-silva)]

Also, this is a good workaround: http://georgia.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9209812&postcount=5

[Matthew Newton (matthewn-alum)]

That workaround is good for the cursor shape, but not the size. :(