I installed another cursor theme manually, just to make sure it wasn't due to the DMZ theme. The same happened.
2010/11/14 Amir Dizdarević <cancivolon...@gmail.com> > 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 >> > >