Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
Selection of the mouse pointer has changed radically under hardy and
Gnome 2.22.3 - finding how to do this is un-obvious and obscure.
Also, pointer selection can crash Firefox. That happened to me while I
was attempting to file this bug report earlier - I had to start from
scratch.
Previously, mouse pointer selection was done in middle tab of the
System>Preferences>Mouse dialog, very logically. All that is left
regarding cursor (mouse pointer) selection is a checkbox allowing
control-key mouse finding.
In my confusion when I first encountered this change, I searched around
and found and installed the gcursor package. This provides a dialog with
appears to select the mouse pointer (it DOES display the possible
cursors), but it doesn't affect the selection. (Bugs such as Bug #138491
have been filed on this). However that particular bug report does give a
bit about the new, complicated way of selecting the mouse pointer.
The first way is with System>Preferences>Appearance. The resulting
dialog "Appearance Preferences" has a "Theme" tab - on that, one can
select a theme and click on the Customize button, to bring up a
"Customize Themes" dialog, which has a "Pointer" tab, in which you can
select a pointer. (This is the first mention of 'mouse' or 'pointer' or
'cursor' in this series of actions).
I think that this is very confusing - I had to go to Launchpad and
search a bit to find this solution!
The Pointer tab should be put back in the mouse dialog! Alternatively,
the gcursor program should be fixed, but that really seems to just add
another selection to the System>Preferences menu, quite unnecessarily.
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259195
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