After an xorg-x11 upgrade the cursor-setting is overwritten without any notification. Adding /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default to CONFIG_PROTECT in /etc/env.d/10xorg will take care of this.
That's because the ebuild specifically tells you that you should be using /usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/ for your local system defaults. einfo "Please note that the xcursors are in /usr/share/cursors/${PN}" einfo "Any custom cursor sets should be placed in that directory" echo einfo "If you wish to set system-wide default cursors, please set" einfo "them in /usr/local/share/cursors/${PN} so that future" einfo "emerges will not overwrite those settings"
This is a typical situation when the feature from bug #11359 would be nice ;-) Nevertheless if you expect from the users to use /usr/local/share/cursors/${PN} then the cursor-ebuilds need to change. To give you an example from x11-themes/blueglass-xcursors; einfo "To globally use this set of mouse cursors edit the file:" einfo " /usr/share/cursors/${X11_IMPLEM}/default/index.theme" einfo "and change the line:" einfo " Inherits=[current setting]" einfo "to" einfo " Inherits=Blue" The cursor-ebuilds suggests putting it in /usr/share/cursors/${X11_IMPLEM}/default/index.theme. Also if you want users to set the system-wide default cursors in /usr/local/share/cursors/${PN} I think you need to be a little more verbose in the xorg-x11 einfo. Maybe something like this (assuming that this is the correct way to do it); einfo "If you wish to set system-wide default cursors, please create the following" einfo "directory: /usr/local/share/cursors/${PN}/default" einfo "in this directory create a file index.theme with the following content" einfo "Inherits=<name of cursor-theme>" einfo " so that future emerges will not overwrite the cursor settings" Unfortunatelly unless bug #11359 is resolved a few people will see this message, because most of the times xorg-x11 is pulled in as a dependency. Can you confirm/decline that the procedure described above is the right way to set system-wide default cursors? Thanks a lot for your support!
K, added some info like what you requested. The cursor ebuilds are giving incorrect info if they aren't referring to the /usr/local parallel of /usr/share/cursors. Please file bugs on them.
bug #81920
