Gnome 3 Cursor Theme

I installed Gnome 3 on my openSUSE 11.4 install. The cursor goes from white to black like it did in Gnome 2 before I edited etc/sysconfig in Yast. Well I have gotten gnome-tweak-tool and edited sysconfig to use Adwaita and the cursor is still black on firefox white in other areas.

I had the exact same problem, however I found that it went away once i changed the cursor theme to DMZ in Gnome Tweak Tool

Hope this helps.

Yours,

Tom

This seems to work for the session but as soon as I reboot it goes back to white and black.

does anyone know any other openSuse specific settings files I can check to hard code it?

Hi Guys,

I fixed this issue on the hardest way. :frowning:

I figured out that Gnome 3 uses black cursor theme by default. So, I reinstalled openSUSE and set black mouse pointer in Gnome 2.x. After that, I installed Gnome 3 and now my cursor is permanently black.

Regards,
Branko

I have narrowed this down to a user setting, if I log in as root (!) the cursor themes are fine, I just now need to know what file in my home directory sets the cursor.

Hi all, i don’t have a good english, but i try to explain the solution to this problem.

I have the same problem, when i install a cursor theme it’s only appear when i’m on Firefox. I solved it on my ArchLinux creating the folder .icons on my home, extracting the .tar.gz theme on it, and changing the name to “default” for example: The theme “Ecliz-Arch” changes its name into “default” and puts here: /home/user/.icons/default

Now i’m going to try the same to the root user in /root/.icons/default but i’m not sure about this. I just see this issue on internet and i want to help everyone.

I tried that still a no go.

Hi,
Have similar problem and find a solution from some guy’s blog - i try it and it’s work like a charm!


make a directory named “default” in /usr/share/icons

mkdir /usr/share/icons/default


make new file named “index.theme”

nano -w index.theme :


put inside new created file index.theme the next 2 rows:

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Adwaita


that’s it - hope will work for you or people with similar problems :slight_smile: