Just to add and clarify, this is not a lightdm issue. Your DE should be theming the root window cursor theme, not the DM.
I think you will find this does not occur in KDE as it is setting the theme when the KDE session is started, and with Gnome, I am guessing the theme is set with GDM hence why the issue occurs in Gnome with lightdm and not GDM. Xfce being a lighter DE and usually started with GDM (prior to Gnome3), Xfce left the root window cursor theming to GDM. So for setups outside of the above, you need you set the default cursor theme yourself as I described in the previous post. So, to be clear, root window cursor theming is the job of the DE, not the DM. When using tools outside of the DE defaults, expect some things to not work as expected as the "3rd party" tools do not have the same integration as the DE defaults do. Cheers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1024482 Title: Mouse cursor theme does not change from default after login Status in Light Display Manager: Confirmed Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “lightdm” package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: When using LightDM to login to a GNOME Shell session, the mouse cursor's appearance does not change from what it is in the lightdm login screen (black pointer from default X theme). Any custom mouse cursor theme actually does apply within any open application windows, but hovering the cursor over the window title bar, the root window, or the Shell interface changes it back to the default black pointer, leading to an inconsistent appearance. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1024482/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
