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A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
Authored by: hmsenn on May 03, '07 05:40:27AM

I just switched from PPC to Intel and ran into the yellow-cursor problem. I am reluctant to apply the patch as it seems to undo the performance enhancements in Apple's latest X11 update, as previously posted here.

So my problem now is that the .icons trick does not work for me either. I connect to a SuSE machine, where the only icon set available is /usr/share/icons/wmappl. I also tried icon sets in /opt/kde3/share/icons (such as hicolor), but to no avail - the yellow thing on my screen stays (in xterm, emacs, etc.).

- Any ideas as to why this is not working?
- Is there a way to check that the stuff in ~/.icons gets actually noticed by whatever is supposed to read this information?
- Any variations on the theme I could fiddle around with? (Such as getting additional icon sets on the Linux box, changing the X client's settings, etc.)

Any help greatly appreciated as this is a real pain!

Cheers
Hans



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A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
Authored by: thuldai on Jun 11, '08 03:26:10AM

I'd also be interested in an update of this ~/.icons/ hint.

I tried it on my remote machine, which started off with an empty /usr/share/icons/. So I copied icon sets (among others HighContrast ones) from other Linux computers into my ~/.icons/ there, but that didn't do anything.

I used the package from lycestra instead (heavy heartedly) and that seems to work well on 10.4.11.



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