If you install some of the *-xcursors themes for XFree86, they never show up in the cursors configuration part of GNOME's Mouse configuration utility. It would be nice if they showed up, and if you could use this panel to switch cursor themes on the fly... currently, if you manually edit /usr/share/cursors/xfree/default/index.theme and then run the Mouse config program, the theme will be updated to whatever is set in */index.theme, but none of the themes ever show up or are choosable in the Mouse program's list of cursor themes. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Mouse config applet. 2. Click on "Cursors" tab. 3. See lack of installed themes. ;) Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r6)================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -mfpmath=sse -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -mfpmath=sse -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.noved.org/ ftp://gentoo.noved.org/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml berkdb slang readline arts aalib bonobo svga ggi tcltk java guile mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 cdr scanner 3dnow acpi acpi4linux autofs cjk clamav dga dnd doc dv dvb dvd dvdr evo faad ffmpeg flash gb gd geoip glut gnomedb gps gstreamer gtk2 imagemagick imap innodb ipv6 ladcca libgda lirc md5sum memlimit mldonkeypango mng nocd oav pda radeon S3TC samba sse stencil-buffer tiff transcode type1 usb v4l videos wmf xinerama xvid -alsa -gdbm"
which is this "GNOME Mouse configuration utility" you're talking about? gnome-mouse-properties only gives me three options to change my cursors, is this where other themes should show up ? I have about 4 other mouse themes and they dont appear here. or are you requesting we add this feature to a default gnome tool ?
Yeah, I guess the actual commandline option is "gnome-mouse-properties", and yeah, you can see that it only shows a couple of generic themes, and none of the extra ones that are installed. I just assumed that this was a bug, that this program should be showing all installed xcursors themes and letting the user pick from them. I was lead to this assumption because if you edit "/usr/share/cursors/xfree/default/index.theme" and run gnome-mouse-properties, it does end up updating your current xcursors theme to whatever you changed index.theme to... it's just that currently installed themes don't show up in its list. So, I guess I'm unsure of the intended behavior of this app. If it's /not/ supposed to be changing xcursors themes, then what kind of alternate cursor theme system does it work with? I guess if it works with some alternate cursor-theme system, I'd request changing this bug to a feature request, since there's really no reason to be using anything but xcursors at this point, IMO.
I think there are plans in this area for gnome 2.6 Aren't mouse themes tied to icon themes atm (?)
I'm not sure of that, actually... extra icons themes doesn't give you extra cursors themes, and as long as you're using the xfree cursors themes, gnome's cursors don't seem to make any difference. Well, as long as they've got it planned for some GNOME release I'm happy. :)
Actually I think there might be some code in either ximian or RedHat for this, I'm not sure though. it would quite be welcome and icons are currently lower than that, it lies in the ~/.Xresources area.
has anyone located this code? that would be convenient ;) We're interested in adding support, but we lack time to find out for ourselves.
I'd like to also note that since GNOME 2.4 went stable, xfree cursor themes have stopped working altogether on Gentoo boxes... it looks like the GNOME cursor selections are now overriding the standard xfree themes... I'm going to look to see if there's a way to tell the GNOME control panel applet about the installed themes, which would go a long way towards closing this bug. :)
http://jodrell.net/gnome-hacks/hacks.html?id=30 Looks like you set the theme you want in GNOME's database under /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme, and then it should pick the right one. However, I haven't determined yet whether it works with the Gentoo generic /usr/share/cursors/xfree directories or just the user local ~/.icons/THEME_NAME/cursors.
Still no code.
It looks like the gcursor project (which has an ebuild in portage now) provides this functionality, so this bug doesn't really matter anymore.
Thanks for the reminder Graeme, you're correct.
