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

[Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:41:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:32:56PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > $ dpkg -x x/xcursor/libxcursor1_1.1.3-1_i386.deb /tmp/libxcursor
> > $ strings /tmp/libxcursor/usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1|grep icons
> > ~/.icons:/usr/share/icons:/usr/share/pixmaps:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons
> > $
> 
> > Yes, apparently so.
> 
> > In that case, what is the source of this bug report on xcursor-themes?
> 
> Oh, right.  Your earlier comment was:
> 
> > XSF: xcursor-themes needs to put its default link in /usr/share/icons,
> > not /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons.
> 
> Well, xcursor-themes *does* install all its files to /usr/share/icons, but
> there's currently nothing in this package which manages symlinks for the
> default theme *at all*.  So that would be the problem here.

I can't remember if the alternatives management went missing or not.
Probably.

All the alternatives management from xlibs-data.postinst needs to come
over, but the alternative at
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme needs to get removed, and
then replaced by /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme.  But the bug was
two-fold, in that the new libxcursor wasn't looking in the *old*
location either.  So both things (new libxcursor search path being
broadened, xcursor-themes postinst needs to be reinstated) need to
happen.