Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess this does not work, if I understand this stuff correctly upstream > heavily relies on the Inherits-line: For each color he provides a "basic" > theme with many files and all the derivate cursors of the same color simply > inherit from the basic theme and have only a few new/other cursors in their > cursors-dir.
Oh, is multilevel inheritance forbidden? If so, that's a problem, because pointing /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme directly at a regular index.theme file does not work -- as X does not chase symlinks itself, it looks for components relative to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default, which contains only the symlink to /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme. :-/ > Done. Thanks very much for this part -- I did not take the whole stuff 1:1 > but > it helped a lot to understand the procedure. Great; you're welcome. > You can find an updated version of crystalcursors here: > http://venthur.de/debian/crystalcursors/ Thanks! I'll take a look when I get a chance. > Now there is one problem left. And it's kinda tricky to explain, but I hope > you can help me: I ran into this myself when playing with setting things up manually, at which point I noticed that everything else used wrapper index.themes files and concluded that they would be necessary here as well. > What have these themes in common? In their index.theme they all miss the > Inherits-line! Since all other themes inherit from these themes, they *have* > this line and so they work. ...sort of; I think pointing the alternative directly at a "working" themes may actually lead to using the theme from which it inherits. > Ok, without having any clue about the syntax and semantics of the index.theme > file, I just tried to insert eg a > > Inherits = crystalblue > > line for the crystalblue-theme, which causes KDM to hang infinitly on the > next > start (I guess it searches recursivly and I caused an infinite loop by > referring to its own parent dir). Right, you can't make a theme inherit from itself! > What's even more strange: in KDE you can choose any of the themes and they > *all* work as expected. So I guess Xorg has some problems with cursors > without Iherits-line. But since the "basic" themes don't inherit from some > other theme I have no idea how to fix it. KDE's theme selector presumably supplies the theme name to X more directly, allowing it to find the components without trouble. > Do you have any idea how to fix the problem? As I said, I believe you need to create wrappers. Thanks. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
