Re: mouse arrow color in XFree-4.3

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:24:29PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> On Saturday 12 April 2003 19:10, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:36:51PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I hope this is the right list to ask such questions, if not please tell
> > > me a better place to ask something like this ;)
> >
> > As said, it is not the right list.
> >
> 
> I'm really sorry, I didn't read the lists description properly.
> 
> > > After I upgraded to XFree-4.3 my mouse arrow is transparent and mostly
> > > white. As you can imagine a white transparent mouse arrow on an almost
> > > white background doesn't give a high contrast. Before I upgraded it was
> > > black on a white background. Well I guess this is controlled by the
> > > application, but I'm not sure, especially since I didn't have those
> > > problems before I upgraded.
> >
> > You can look into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme :
> >
> > [Icon Theme]
> > Inherits=redglass
> >
> > and change the different icon themes. Currently the choices are
> > redglass, whiteglass and core. There may be others in the future.
> 
> Thanks a lot, after changing it to core I can use my mouse again.
> 
> >
> > That said, it is a problem of your distrib vendor, since the default
> > icons are core.
> 
> Hmm not directly, its an inofficial debian woody package (I only upgraded due 
> to better support of my laptop's graphics chip (i830M)). However I will 
> contact the person who created the packages.

Like said, it is because Daniel's Stone package use whiteglass as
default, while upstream switched to core just before the release.

I know, i use the exact same packages, altough on a sid box. BTW, there
is also debian-x for questions about this, and Daniel even encourages to
ask questions about his packages there.

Friendly,

Sven Luther