I use lightdm with the gtk-greeter on Arch to log in to an Xfce session, and I do not experience any of these issues.
I found that removing my default cursor theme from /usr/share/icons I began experiencing the theme changing problem. After applying the patch above, it made absolutely no difference to the theme changing behaviour. So I think this issue is quite simply a default theme is not being set correctly. The solution is to set a default cursor theme as follows: # mkdir /usr/share/icons/default # touch /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme Now edit index.theme and add the following: [Icon Theme] Inherits=<CURSOR THEME NAME> The chosen cursor theme will now be applied on both light dm and your root window in your session. Cheers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1024482 Title: Mouse cursor theme does not change from default after login Status in Light Display Manager: Confirmed Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “lightdm” package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: When using LightDM to login to a GNOME Shell session, the mouse cursor's appearance does not change from what it is in the lightdm login screen (black pointer from default X theme). Any custom mouse cursor theme actually does apply within any open application windows, but hovering the cursor over the window title bar, the root window, or the Shell interface changes it back to the default black pointer, leading to an inconsistent appearance. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1024482/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
