Description of Problem: When starting X with the "whiteglass" cursor theme by setting: XCURSOR_THEME=whiteglass startx The white transparent mouse pointer contains a single pixel wide vertical strip of missing color about 1/3 of the way from the left side of the cursor. It looks as if it might be a glitch in the actual cursor images, but a glitch in the code isn't ruled out yet either. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.2.99.1-0.20021008.[0-8] and 4.2.99.1-0.20021012.0 Problem reported to Keith and Jim also. How Reproducible: 100%. The system this has been tested on is a Compaq Proliant ML530 with an ATI Rage IIc onboard video. Another user has mentioned this problem also. Any other users experiencing this problem should make a comment below also, and indicate their hardware, in case it happens to matter at all.
Problem reported to XFree86.org private development list.
I experienced the same thing with the 4.2.99.2-0.20021105 snapshot. (NV11 GeForce2 MX, rev 161)
It's not a software bug, but a graphic bug. The actual cursors themselves suck. I'm removing whiteglass real soon, as it doesn't appear anyone upstream is interested in fixing this. I'm told we will be making our own cursors that don't suck for our final release. Reassigning to redhat-artwork, as I'm not sure where it fits really, but XFree86 is losing whiteglass in my next build.
*** Bug 80310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ack! Removing whiteglass was such a bad thing. Redglass SUCKS. Since whiteglass worked just fine for me (no graphic glitches at all), I have put them back in by hand, but how does one revert to the plain-old X cursors with these new builds if I don't want the new 'fancy' cursors?
There's no point debating the merits of whiteglass/redglass, they are just placeholders to test the icon code. Report bugs if there are any graphics artifacts or other X bugs.
imorgan: No problem. I've removed redglass now too, so there are no ugly placeholder cursors. The next build of X will default to the stock legacy cursors.
mharris, we're going to ship with garrett's cursors; you might want to get some testing on the new cursor system. Just a thought.
redhat-artwork now contains a Bluecurve cursor theme. Moving to XFree86 as the remaining task is for X to default to this theme. I think the Bluecurve cursors will also still get some tweaking, but we will be tweaking that theme rather than switching to another one, so XFree should be defaulted to Bluecurve and left that way.
Some of us liked redglass/whiteglass despite its problems for *experts*. I think the standard X stuff is ugly and everyone who saw this cursor theme was impressed. I put them back in by hand. How about a redhat-config-cursors rpm?
redglass and whiteglass are definitely not coming back into the distribution as they exist right now. In order for them to come back, a professional artist needs to volunteer to fix all of the problems in them, including fixing the graphical glitches in whiteglass, adding cursors that are missing from whiteglass, and redoing both themes so that the drop shadow is much much closer to the real cursor, so that people do not go cross eyed. While some people may "like" one of these two themes, the *tonnes* of bug reports received by us indicate quite clearly that they are not shippable to the masses. An OS should not receive mouse cursor bug reports due to poor graphic art. People who want these two works of ugliness will have to install them by hand from XFree86 source code.
Xcursor defaults to Bluecurve cursor theme now. Also, the icon/cursor themes now default to being placed in /usr/share/icons