Package: big-cursor
Version: 3.9
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Installing the big-cursor package does not change the mouse
pointers for several window managers including fvwm and
icewm.
I consider this a high priority, because users with vision
issues need to be adapt Debian to their requirements without
having to explore the many web pages with incomplete and
conflicting recommendations.
The recommended method for manually selecting mouse pointers
is:
update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
However after installing big-cursor, the above command
doesn't offer big-cursor as a choice.
Here are the changes required to fix this issue.
1. Support update-alternatives
The big-cursor package should include a file:
/usr/share/icons/big-cursor/index.theme
containing this content:
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=big-cursor
2. Automatically select big-cursor
The post-install routine should link /etc/update/alternatives/x-cursor-theme
to /usr/share/icons/big-cursor/index.theme.
3. Tell the user how to manually select the big-cursor theme
The post-install routine and/or
/usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.debian should say:
In order to activate the big-cursor theme, run the command
update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
and select big-cursor
Thank you for your attention
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages big-cursor depends on:
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.3
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.7+2
big-cursor recommends no packages.
big-cursor suggests no packages.
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