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?
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.
Okay, 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?