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[Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb+launchpad@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: xorg
  
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+ The “Appearance Preferences” applet offers the option to “Customize” the
+ display theme. When using this option, the last tab of the “Customize
+ Theme” dialog offers customization of the pointer (mouse cursor) theme.
+ Several options are presented.
  
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+ I noticed that (on my machine, at least), picking any theme other than
+ the default doesn’t seem to have any effect (nor does the “Size” setting
+ on the same window). After a bit of investigation, I noticed that it is
+ used, but inconsistently. (You can more easily reproduce/check these
+ cases by picking a very obvious theme, e.g. “redglass”, and zooming it
+ to maximum.)
+ 
+ First of all, on the “main” Firefox windows, the theme is always used
+ according to mouse position: over “nothing in particular” it’s the
+ “arrow”, over text it turns to the “text cursor” shape, links get a
+ different arrow, around the window borders it’s the appropriate
+ “resizing arrow” offered by the theme.
+ 
+ All other windows I’ve checked seem inconsistent:
+ 
+ 1) Firefox “auxiliary” windows, e.g. “Add-ons” or “Downloads” start
+ inconsistently: they seem to use the “default” cursor for the “normal”
+ arrow and the window-resizing ones. However, once the pointer goes
+ something needing the “text cursor”, it reverts to the “main window”
+ behavior of Firefox, i.e. all cursors become themed (including the
+ “normal arrow” and the window resizing pointers).
+ 
+ 2) Most other windows (all that I’ve checked, including Nautilus, the terminal, and the appearance applet) have a different inconsistency:
+        2.a) They use the “default” (non-themed) arrow for normal situations.
+        2.b) When the cursor should be changed because of window contents, e.g. over text fields, the themed version is used. (This doesn’t “switch” behavior as FF; when the cursor is moved over “normal” widgets it returns to the non-themed arrow cursor.
+        2.c) When a window-resizing cursor is need, a themed version is used, but it is that of the cursor theme that was picked when the window was opened. (Suppose you start with a “default”, i.e. un-themed pointer; open a terminal, write “default” in it. Then switch to a themed cursor, say “DMZ Black” zoomed to maximum; open a second terminal and write “DMZ” in it. Then switch to “redglass” with minimum zoom; open a third terminal, write “red” in it. Now move your mouse over the terminals. All three terminals will show the red text cursor over their “text” area, the unthemed cursor over their menu area, and each a different kind of arrows when resizing, matching what is written in them.)
+ 
+ There might be other inconsistencies I haven’t noticed yet.
+ 
+ (Please ignore my non-standard kernel. It’s a “vanilla” version I’m
+ using for tests of other bugs. The bug I’m reporting here occurs the
+ same with a normal Ubuntu kernel.)
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.34-999-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun May  2 14:25:49 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANGUAGE=en_US:en
-  PATH=(custom, user)
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANGUAGE=en_US:en
+  PATH=(custom, user)
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  system:
-  distro:             Ubuntu
-  codename:           lucid
-  architecture:       x86_64
-  kernel:             2.6.34-999-generic
+  distro:             Ubuntu
+  codename:           lucid
+  architecture:       x86_64
+  kernel:             2.6.34-999-generic

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pointer selection is ineffective
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573628
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