On 12/04/11 02:14 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On lun., 2011-04-11 at 21:21 -0400, Allen Cuda wrote:
FYI,
If you log in from GDM using the 'Run Xclient script' as your session,
you will not be able to change your mouse cursor theme and size as
described in the bug report. You must log in using 'Xfce session' for
the theme and size changes to work.
Thanks, that's new and useful information.
Could you give use the output of:
xrdb -query
in both cases and before/after changing the theme?
While logged in with Xfce-session I ran xrdb -query before changing the
theme:
*customization: -color
Xcursor.size: 22
Xcursor.theme: default
Xcursor.theme_core: true
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.dpi: 91
Xft.hinting: -1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.rgba: rgb
And here is the output immediately after changing from the default (DMZ
white) theme to the Oxygen Blue theme.
*customization: -color
Xcursor.size: 22
Xcursor.theme: oxy-blue
Xcursor.theme_core: true
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.dpi: 91
Xft.hinting: -1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.rgba: rgb
I then logged out and logged in using the Xclient script session and ran
xrdb -query and only a single line was output, and the cursor theme is
back to the default with some exceptions like those described by the bug
reporter:
*customization: -color
Oddly enough, if I change the theme while in this session and run xfwm4
--replace, the theme does change and the xrdb output is:
*customization: -color
Xcursor.size: 22
Xcursor.theme: ComixCursors-Opaque-Green-Huge
Xcursor.theme_core: true
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.dpi: 91
Xft.hinting: -1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.rgba: rgb
However, logging out and back in using the Xclient session results in
the single line xrdb output with the default theme prevailing.
If you want the changes to take
effect without restarting the X server, execute 'xfwm4 --restart&' from
a terminal (Note that QT applications need to be restarted to get the
new cursor theme).
Note that, as I already said, apps *wont* pick up the new cursor theme
until they are restarted. Easiest way to restart the window manager is
to quit X but indeed you can restart it manually.
Also, some cursor themes have "small/medium/large"
sets and won't respond to the cursor size hint.
So, maybe the bug is in the session script…
My guess is that it's not a bug. When using "run xclient script" the
system uses whatever you provided as .xsession so it's your
responsibility to manage that correctly.
"Xfce session" is a session setup by Xfce and Debian maintainers which
takes care of everything which need to be done. It's usually the best
choice but some people might prefer to do it their way.
Note that if you don't chose anything there's a fallback mechanism in
the X startup scripts which will end up running the x-session-manager
currently configured, which is often xfce4-session on a typical Xfce
box. In that case you end up with a Xfce session with most of the apps
but lacking stuff (xscreensaver, some configuration etc.). That'll be
fixed for 4.8 where we'll put the whole configuration script as the
default x-session-manager so the default settings starts a complete Xfce
session.
Regards,
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