mouse cursor theme oxygen changes over window border

[Eithel]

Binary package hint: oxygen-cursor-theme

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, with only gnome installed and nvidia card, no compiz.

When i use oxygen-cursor-theme inside a window or desktop all is fine. when i move cursor over window border the mouse theme changes to DMZ-Black. If i return over window, mouse return with oxygen theme.
This happens only with oxygen theme.

[Eithel (tux-eithel)]

In autor's blog i found :

"
Very pretty =)

Ruphy:
About gtk/gnome, it uses a different set of cursors for resizing windows. Eg:

Open a gtk app with a statusbar and a bottom right corner grab handle thing. Hover the mouse over this.

Compare this cursor with the one hovered over the edge of kwin.

Metacity and other gtk WM’s will use 8 variants of of the cursor you get hovered over the statusbar grab handle"

Can someone fix that ?

[MilchFlasche (robertus0617)]

On KDE 4 too, enabling Compiz, the mouse theme for resizing windows is different than the one set in KDE Control Center, which is often DMZ-Black. Yes, thank you Eithel for filing this bug, because it bugs me a little bit too.

[MilchFlasche (robertus0617)]

By the way, I must add that I'm using Mandriva 2009 facing this issue, not Ubuntu. And I'm using the cute Oxygen Yellow mouse theme. So I guess this has to do with the major window managers or desktop environments about how they specify the mouse theme to use to resize a window?

[daniele80 (daniele80)]

This bug still affects Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS

[Berend De Schouwer (berend-de-schouwer)]

To fix the resize problem in 12.04:

cd /usr/share/icons/oxy-your-colour/icons/

sudo ln -s n-resize top_side
sudo ln -s s-resize bottom_side
sudo ln -s e-resize right_side
sudo ln -s w-resize left_side
sudo ln -s size_bdiag bottom_left_corner
sudo ln -s size_bdiag top_right_corner
sudo ln -s size_fdiag top_left_corner
sudo ln -s size_fdiag bottom_right_corner

[Christo Apostolov (hr-apostolov)]

I can confirm that the suggestion in the post above (#5) works in 12.04.

[Christo Apostolov (hr-apostolov)]

Actually the right path is "/usr/share/icons/oxy-your-colour/cursors/".

[BlueRainbow (bluufoxx)]

I made a duplicate about this earlier. it seems so easy for the devs to crank out a basic Bash script to fix it and repack.

[Majal (majalmirasol)]

Bump after 6 years. Is there a way to get this upstream? It looks like a simple fix. Any maintainers for this one?

Here's a one-liner for comment #5 and will do it for all oxy folders:

$ cur=(n-resize s-resize e-resize w-resize size_bdiag size_bdiag size_fdiag size_fdiag); ln=(top_side bottom_side right_side left_side bottom_left_corner top_right_corner top_left_corner bottom_right_corner); cd /usr/share/icons; for dir in oxy-*; do cd "/usr/share/icons/${dir}/cursors"; for x in ${!cur[@]}; do sudo ln -s "${cur[${x}]}" "${ln[${x}]}"; done; done

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Long version for bash script:

cur=(n-resize s-resize e-resize w-resize size_bdiag size_bdiag size_fdiag size_fdiag)
ln=(top_side bottom_side right_side left_side bottom_left_corner top_right_corner top_left_corner bottom_right_corner)

cd /usr/share/icons

for dir in oxy-*; do
  cd "/usr/share/icons/${dir}/cursors"

  for x in ${!cur[@]}; do
    sudo ln -s "${cur[${x}]}" "${ln[${x}]}"
  done
done