RE: Mouse cursor theme and Customize Look and Feel

2012-11-11 Thread Ryan Porter
>It's not a bug. It's the limitation of X11.This is one of the many things that >Windows can do well and X >cannot. >Changing cursors on the fly requires XFIXES extension to X11. >Besides, not all applications/GUI toolkits have proper support for this. >In addition, KDE, Qt, gtk, and gtk with xset

Re: Mouse cursor theme and Customize Look and Feel

2012-11-11 Thread Hitesh Shah
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:47 AM, PCMan wrote: > It's not a bug. It's the limitation of X11. > This is one of the many things that Windows can do well and X cannot. > Changing cursors on the fly requires XFIXES extension to X11. > Besides, not all applications/GUI toolkits have proper support for

Re: Mouse cursor theme and Customize Look and Feel

2012-11-11 Thread PCMan
It's not a bug. It's the limitation of X11. This is one of the many things that Windows can do well and X cannot. Changing cursors on the fly requires XFIXES extension to X11. Besides, not all applications/GUI toolkits have proper support for this. In addition, KDE, Qt, gtk, and gtk with xsettings

RE: Mouse cursor theme and Customize Look and Feel

2012-11-11 Thread Ryan Porter
>Can someone please confirm what I'm seeing? My set-up is a standard Lubuntu >12.10 install, fully updated on a Dell 1545 laptop. I have had this problem since I very first started on Linux back in 2009, I think. It was Ubuntu 9.04, and it had this problem. I used galternatives to fix it. I did s

Mouse cursor theme and Customize Look and Feel

2012-11-10 Thread Hitesh Shah
There's a thread here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12345696) and the user seems to having problems with getting uniform results with mouse cursor themes installed from elsewhere. I think the default is DMZ White but just to check I changed to DMZ Black. Even after a couple of reboots