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? > 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, -- Yves-Alexis
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