Non-default cursor themes fail to load

[Lukáš Tinkl]

Steps to reproduce:

$ sudo apt-get install breeze-cursor-theme
$ update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
-> choose anything else than the default DMZ theme

Unity8 doesn't seem to find/parse the given cursor theme, log file repeatedly shows the following for all cursor shapes it encounters:

CursorImageProvider: "left_ptr" not found, trying "default"
CursorImageProvider: "left_ptr" not found, trying "top_left_arrow"
CursorImageProvider: "left_ptr" not found, trying "left_arrow"
CursorImageProvider: couldn't find any cursors. Using the built-in one

As a result, the user sees only the one builtin cursor.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.11+16.04.20151208.1-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.11+16.04.20151208.1-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

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 -- Gerry Boland <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:37:58 +0000