(might should be more than 1 bug) 1) When 24 pixel white cursor theme is selected, you get a black cursor for everything except for mozilla 2) the larger size cursors get no core cursor fallback at all. 3) A startup race sometimes gets the wrong cursor set totally.
probably 1) was caused by 3)
The race could be that while gnome-settings-daemon is started early in the session, it doesn't set the cursor until later on. In the interim, metacity, nautilus and the panel could possibly be started. This is just a guess, though.
did anything ever happen to address this jrb?
This system was re-done and we don't support alternate cursor themes anymore (just alternate sizes). I've tested it here with Fedora, and it seems to work well. I'd like to close this.