Bug#362233: xcursor-themes: symlinking default cursors makes xterm fail with BadRequest

[Lukasz Pankowski <lukpank@o2.pl>]

Package: xcursor-themes
Version: 1.0.1-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

In 6.9 I used cursors from gtk2-engines-industrial (automagically).
After switching to Xorg 7.0 from experimental this stopped working and
I selected the cursor theme with one of [1]

    ln  -s /usr/share/icons/whiteglass /usr/share/icons/default
    ln  -s /usr/share/icons/whiteglass ~/.icons/default

This worked with Xorg 7.0 from experimental but many programs break
with Xorg 7.0 from unstable, xterm gives informative message:

$ xterm
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (XFIXES)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  23 (XFixesSetCursorName)
  Serial number of failed request:  27
  Current serial number in output stream:  28

Emacs and Gtk2 programs most notably GDM fail to start with a more
cryptic messages.

The problem disappears after removing the `default' link, but the
curious thing is that it have worked before Xorg from experimental.


[1] as suggested on
    http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnomeFrequentlyAskedQuestions



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-vserver-k7
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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