Bug#362766: xcursor-themes: cursor themes do not work using current libxcursor1

[Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org>]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 02:03:54PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> The xcursor-themes package doesn't work for me anymore.
> 
> % dpkg --list xserver-xorg libxcursor1 xcursor-themes
> [...]
> ii  libxcursor1    1.1.5.2-3      X cursor management library
> ii  xcursor-themes 1.0.1-2        Base X cursor themes
> ii  xserver-xorg   6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 the X.Org X server
> 
> I didn't change anything in the system wide setup:
> 
> % ls -la /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-04-12 21:18 /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme -> /etc/X11/cursors/whiteglass.theme
> % ls -la /etc/X11/cursors/whiteglass.theme
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 2003-04-16 18:17 /etc/X11/cursors/whiteglass.theme
> 
> This works for me as a local fix:
> 
>   mkdir ~/.icons
>   cd ~/.icons
>   ln -s /usr/share/icons/whiteglass default
> 
> If I'm using the old libxcursor1 version 1.1.3-1 then xcursor-themes
> works as intended and without any problems. As soon as I update
> libxcursor1 it's broken for the system wide setup again (the local
> fix still works of course).
> 
> Disclaimer: I wasn't sure whether I should report this issue to
> xcursor-themes or libxcursor1, sorry if I chose wrong.

XSF: xcursor-themes needs to put its default link in /usr/share/icons,
not /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons.