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

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

reassign 362233 libxfixes3
severity 362233 grave
merge 362049 362233
kthxbye

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 23:42 +0200, Lukasz Pankowski wrote:
> 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

This is a duplicate of #362049, merging.

As a workaround, you can downgrade libxfixes3 to the previous version or
rebuild the current version locally.


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