mouse cursor

[billium]

I have installed Arch on an old satellite laptop. Everything is fine with X for twm, so I try lxde. The only problem is the mouse cursor does not appear on the screen. I can move an unseen cursor and click and things operate as normal, but it is hard to operate without seeing the cursor. I tried fluxbox and the cursor is fine. I have also tried LXDE (some time ago) on my main Gentoo machine and never had problems. If I open five or more tasks, in LXDE, e.g. file managers, the cursor appears and all is well.

Has anybody else seen this? It is an old laptop with a trident chipset (setup for one task only, for mainly MS users). The version is Arch's current default, PCMan is 0.5.1. X is 1.6.3 kernel is 2.6.30-ARCH

Many thanks

Billium

[pingu]

Hi, I also use Arch and LXDE, I didn't ecounter this kind of problem. Have you installed Openbox?

[maces]

Hi

I have seen this problem on another machine, too, but I don't know how to solve this. Ask cassmodiah at the IRC, maybe he has find a solution, but I can't promise .

maces

[archibald haddock]

Have you explicitly set a cursor theme? If not you could try.

[pingu]

Yes, you could tray this as archiebald haddock suggested.
Copied from Arch Linux Forums / Changing the cursor theme in LXDE? (bonus: issues with icon themes) , thanks goes to fwojciec:

1. Create directory /usr/share/icons/default
2. Inside this directory create a file called index.theme with the following content:
Code:

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[icon theme]
Inherits=neutral

Replace neutral with the name of the cursor theme you want to use.
3. Restart X.

I've had issues with different cursor themes. One theme on desktop and other inside Firefox. With this guide I get global cursor theme.