List,
I was trying out cursor themes in Kubuntu and changed it to a theme that was called "X Cursor themes" or so. I selected it and logged out to set the current cursor theme as "X cursor theme". However, the file seems to be missing and Kubuntu disables starting X because, it is unable to find the file.
I'm clueless about which file it (cursor) has manipulated that instructs it to load the cursor when it has to start the GUI.
Alternatively, if it is possible, can I change the cursor them from the CLI?
I tried disabling the InputDevice (mouse, cursor) by commenting them in /etc/X11/xorg.conf so that mouse is disabled and then, I could just reset the cursor theme, but that fails as well.
TIA.
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--- Roshan wrote:
I was trying out cursor themes in Kubuntu and changed it to a theme that was called "X Cursor themes" or so. I selected it and logged out to set the current cursor theme as "X cursor theme". However, the file seems to be missing and Kubuntu disables starting X because, it is unable to find the file.
This was my first step. I guess, I also installed something called as "artwiz-cursor".
The error message thrown by X when issued a startx on TTY was
Fatal Error 104: could not open default cursor font 'cursor' (...)
I'm clueless about which file it (cursor) has manipulated that instructs it to load the cursor when it has to start the GUI.
Found that it manipulated two files. One it renamed a file in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc named cursor.pcf.gz to cursor.pcf.gz-artwiz and subsequently the fonts.dir file in the same directory by modifying the entry on a line containing cursor.pcf.gz cursor to cursor.pcf.gz -artwiz cursor
Solution:
I renamed the file and changed the entry in fonts.dir which solved the problem.
I'm not the first one to have this sort of a problem. A few others also had same issues.
A bug was filed for Breezy in Launchpad, Debian Sarge also has the same bug. (it is a so-called diversion bug).
Thanks to msn from #l-i who spent time trying to resolve this issue. One fellow with Debian took 1.5 hours to solve it (I have the text with me, the link is lost :( ) and I took nearly four hours (4) to find the solution. :(
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