Description of problem: After recent update cursor theme falls to kde adwaita black and if I set it to mate white it resets to adwaite after restart. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 18 with kde as default DE and installed Mate after. How reproducible: Allways Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot to mate desktop. 2. set white cursor theme via desktop properties dialog, set white cursor via kde-settings. 3. all looks good with white cursor theme, now restart computer Actual results: Cursor now ugly black from adwaita Expected results: cursor theme still white like I choose. Additional info: when I try to remove adwaita-cursor-theme.noarch, yum wants to remove all kde soft by dependencies: Removing: adwaita-cursor-theme noarch 3.6.5-1.fc18 @updates 1.7 M Removing for dependencies: amarok x86_64 2.7.1-2.fc18 @updates 21 M amarok-libs x86_64 2.7.1-2.fc18 @updates 11 M amarok-utils x86_64 2.7.1-2.fc18 @updates 375 k apper x86_64 0.8.1-0.3.20130511.fc18 @updates 4.3 M ark x86_64 4.10.3-1.fc18 @updates 563 k ark-libs x86_64 4.10.3-1.fc18 @updates 535 k audiocd-kio x86_64 4.10.3-1.fc18 @updates 197 k audiocd-kio-libs x86_64 4.10.3-1.fc18 @updates 176 k bluedevil x86_64 1.3-1.fc18 @updates 2.1 M bomber x86_64 4.10.3-1.fc18 @updates 1.6 M bovo x86_64 4.10.3-1.fc18 @updates 403 k calligra-core x86_64 2.6.3-1.fc18 @updates 15 M calligra-krita x86_64 2.6.3-1.fc18 @updates 82 M calligra-krita-libs x86_64 2.6.3-1.fc18 @updates 6.9 M calligra-libs x86_64 2.6.3-1.fc18 @updates 14 M digikam x86_64 3.1.0-1.fc18 @updates 34 M digikam-libs x86_64 3.1.0-1.fc18 @updates 7.0 M 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The adwaita-cursor-theme actually comes from GNOME, not KDE. But it is the distrowide default (at Xcursor level) in Fedora, which is why we also default to it in KDE. KDE settings should have no effect in MATE sessions. The bug here is that MATE isn't applying the settings you make in MATE's control center at session startup time. Reassigning to mate-settings-daemon. As for the dependency of KDE on adwaita-cursor-theme, it makes sense to depend on the default theme that our settings default to. There's no KDE bug here.
I found workaround for me - in file /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme replace [Icon Theme] Inherits=Adwaita with [Icon Theme] Inherits=mate The feeling that I have done so, but somebody (update script for some X-related packages?) overwritten my chages.
Also, why does not work this: update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme in Linux Mint this command helps fix such issue without manual editing any files
>KDE settings should have no effect in MATE sessions KDE settings has effect in MATE sessions for KDE Applications, like kate, kdevelop, kdesvn
also, possibly this is neither KDE, nor Mate bug, but bug of compiz. I use compiz, and at system startup I can see first of all black cursor (most possibly Adwaita) at kdm screen, then loading mate and I can see white cursor some short time, then starts up compiz, which replaces marco and cursor become black again.
> The feeling that I have done so, but somebody (update script for some X-related > packages?) overwritten my chages. /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme is not a config file and therefore any update of the package owning that file (libXcursor) will replace the file and undo your changes. Never edit files in /usr. > Also, why does not work this: > update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme > in Linux Mint this command helps fix such issue without manual editing any > files Fedora does not use alternatives to configure the cursor theme. The systemwide default cursor theme cannot be changed in Fedora (which is also one of the reasons we default to Adwaita for KDE sessions even though it's the GNOME theme). You can only change it for user sessions. > KDE settings has effect in MATE sessions for KDE Applications, like kate, > kdevelop, kdesvn Some settings do, some don't. The cursor theme shouldn't (it should be a session-wide setting), but it's possible that it does.
> also, possibly this is neither KDE, nor Mate bug, but bug of compiz. It's possible that Compiz has its own setting for the cursor theme.
Thanks for your answers, Kevin!
There is a setting for the cursor theme in ccsm, core plugin, general. But default value is empty (not set).
I suggest to edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme as workaround for the moment until upstream fix this known issue. Changing cursor theme with mate-appearance-properties is currently broken in MATE.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 989152 ***