I’m having a separate problem from what @11ryanc had previously. I’ve tried all my tricks and none of them seem to work for changing the cursor in my session of Ubuntu MATE completely.
Is there any way to make my mouse cursor theme match across my entire desktop, instead of defaulting to dmz-white all the time, without needing to remove the DMZ theme?
See the answer here, I’m not sure if it works as I haven’t tried it, I just switch back to my favourite cursor theme when and if I change themes!:
That is something that happens quite often on Debian based systems. How about trying:
sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
Apply what you prefer.
Yeah, that’s the thing. I’ve done that to no avail.
update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
mate-appearance-properties
sudo mate-appearance-properties
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme "[oh God please help me]"
marco --replace #To see if Compiz 0.8 is screwing something up
sudo nano /usr/share./icons/default/index.theme #In case that got cocked up
sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-cursor-theme #In case changing priorities helped
sudo nano /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursor.theme #In case changing its inherits would help
echo None of this helps, I want to do awful things.
Seriously, Cinnamon does a better job of this. Why does it have to be so damn hard in MATE?
If anyone wants to hang out in the #ubuntu-mate channel until later, I’ll gladly let somebody use Teamviewer to help me change my cursor theme, if they can figure out how to do it. I’ll make note of things I had not done yet. Preferably, since somebody’s going to be logging me in and out all the time, I would rather their session details since the other side won’t be logging off so much.
I am on Ubuntu MATE 14.04 using “Windows 7” cursor theme.
This is what I did:
Extract theme to /usr/share/icons so it’s available system-wide
Tweak your account so cursor theme applies to Qt-applications
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1481311
It worked for me.
Which window manager? I’ve known Compiz to do this, but it usually requires the session to restart for it to apply to windows that are already open.
I have this trick saved in my commands list that did the trick in the past:
CURSOR="DMZ-Black"
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme x-cursor-theme /usr/share/icons/"$CURSOR"/cursor.theme 20
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme "$CURSOR" && sudo update-alternatives --set x-cursor-theme /usr/share/icons/"$CURSOR"/cursor.themeOkay, a super-interesting bit of development; My cursor is still screwed up. But when I try to screencap the problem, my cursor appears as it should in the image, but not as I am making it.
What black magic sorcery is that? Is it my backported Compiz screwing things up?
It might be an old bug, since this use to be a problem for me in the past, but not anymore.
There is a dirty workaround:
Undo all config changes and rename /usr/share/icons/[new theme] in place of /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White
it’s not specific to Ubuntu MATE because it also happens on Manjaro, Opensuse, Debian etc with the MATE Desktop.
I hate using this solution, but it works.
What could one do in a multi-user environment?
I haven’t thought about that. It might be possible to “override” the system-wide version by placing it in:
~/.local/share/icons/DMZ-White/~/.icons/DMZ-White/
Works with icons, not sure if cursors will too.