FS#71679 - [adwaita-icon-theme] set as the default cursor theme

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by tinywrkb (tinywrkb) - Saturday, 31 July 2021, 22:27 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Monday, 04 September 2023, 23:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I suggest considering to set adwaita as the default icon theme, so users will not hit an issue like the one mentioned in the following link.
https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/4780

Suggested changes attached.
I've been using this for a while and haven't hit the issue again.
   0001-set-as-the-default-curso... (1.6 KiB)
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Closed by  Toolybird (Toolybird)
Monday, 04 September 2023, 23:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  We now have "default-cursors" which wayland also depends upon.
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Sunday, 01 August 2021, 17:33 GMT
The libxcursor package already contains this file.
Comment by tinywrkb (tinywrkb) - Sunday, 01 August 2021, 18:48 GMT
Thanks for replying!

Oh, I wasn't aware that it's included in libxcursor, but maybe this is not the right package for it nowadays that we have Wayland?
Wayland's implementation of cursor theme doesn't seem to depend on libxcursor: https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland/blob/main/cursor/xcursor.c

I guess only users who don't have a widget toolkit and x11 apps that depends on libxcursor will hit this.
The problem is that it's not obvious that the cursor is disappearing because a default cursor theme wasn't explicitly set by the user.
Maybe adwaita-icon-theme is not the right location for this file, but I still think that the file should be moved out from libxcursor into a package in the dependency tree of wayland.

I actually have my own gtk3 build without x11, which is why I don't have libxcursor.

Anyways, I opened this because I thought the suggested changes might help other users. If you think that the file should stay in libxcursor, then feel free to close this issue.
Comment by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Tuesday, 08 August 2023, 19:11 GMT
This is an automated comment as this bug is open for more then 2 years. Please reply if you still experience this bug otherwise this issue will be closed after 1 month.

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