Bug 934161 – [Tracker] Cursors installing to legacy X-specific /usr/share/cursors/x11-xorg directory

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sam James 2024-06-13 01:27:04 UTC]

TL;DR: Cursor themes should be installed at /usr/share/icons, not /usr/share/cursors/x11-xorg which is Gentoo-specific (apparently) and doesn't work with Wayland.

Note that because of bug 834600, workarounds like in x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme will be needed (see b61c3fc638ce388659557b5cebd5484251f84d90).

See https://bugs.gentoo.org/838451#c12.

[Comment 1 Sam James 2024-06-13 01:29:49 UTC]

$ rg /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11 -l | xargs grep /usr/share/icons -L | cut -d/ -f1-2 | sort -u
x11-themes/blueglass-xcursors
x11-themes/chameleon-xcursors
x11-themes/comix-xcursors
x11-themes/golden-xcursors
x11-themes/haematite-xcursors
x11-themes/neutral-xcursors
x11-themes/obsidian-xcursors
x11-themes/pearlgrey-xcursors
x11-themes/pulse-glass
x11-themes/silver-xcursors
x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-aa-xcursors
x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-xcursors

[addCollapseLink(2, 1, 'Toggle comment display'); Comment 2 Sorrow 2024-06-13 01:37:52 UTC Comment hidden (offtopic)]

That's what I was saying back in #834001, but no one listened.

[addCollapseLink(3, 1, 'Toggle comment display'); Comment 3 Sam James 2024-06-13 01:38:55 UTC Comment hidden (offtopic)]

(In reply to Sorrow from comment #2)
> That's what I was saying back in #834001, but no one listened.

Someone did listen - they fixed adwaita. They just didn't have the initiative to file a tracker and file lots of other bugs. It is what it is.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2024-06-16 09:48:38 UTC]

I think we could probably simply move to the new location and drop the old one. /usr/share/icons looks to be looked for used and, like that, we don't need to play with the symlink