I did: sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends dmz-cursor-theme.
The package makes a symlink in /usr/share/icons/default , making the white version of it the default cursor. I tried setting the black version of the theme in Xfce, and also tried to make it bigger. The result was what I stated before. 2010/11/14 Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> > On dim., 2010-11-14 at 18:46 +0100, Amir Dizdarević wrote: > > You were right. Restarting X does change the cursor, but only for > > hovering > > over the desktop. In all other applications, and also when hovering > > the > > panel, the system > > default is used, which is the white dmz cursor since I installed that. > > Maybe the default symlink in /usr/share/icons superimposes itself? > > I'll try > > and remove the symlink. > > > > EDIT: No, that doesn't help. This time, instead of the white dmz > > cursor, I > > get > > the old black X cursor and the cursor I set appears only when hovering > > the > > desktop. > > Oddly enough, the Chromium browser gets the default cursor in > > everything, > > except for its address bar or other UI parts where there's input > > required. > > But I guess those are just the parts not styled by GTK. Could it then > > be > > that GTK has something to do with it?. > > > > EDIT2: No, KDE4 apps also have the same issue. Strange... > > > > > > Thank you for your time! > > How exactly did you install the cursor theme? > -- > Yves-Alexis >