Inconsistent mouse size settings

[Chris Rydalch]

I didn't have the gtk3 engine installed, so I've installed that. But
unfortunately, it didn't fix the mouse size in my case. I'll try a clean
install of Xubuntu or Fedora w/ Xfce, and see if that's keeping the
addition of the gtk3-engines from resolving my problem.

Under Debian, are you likewise seeing the variations in cursor size? Thanks
for the help Greg!


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 08:11 -0800, Chris Rydalch wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:50 AM, killermoehre <killermoehre at gmx.net>
> > wrote:
> >         Am Mi 13 Nov 2013 17:37:15 CET schrieb Chris Rydalch:
> >         > Hmm.... looks like it's running, and it's in the Autostart
> >         list with a
> >         > checkbox next to its name. Is there some other settings
> >         daemon that's
> >         > supposed to be running?
> >         >
> >         > How do I check to see if it's toolkit-dependent? I thought
> >         the mouse
> >         > setting would just be inherited by setting the mouse size in
> >         the
> >         > settings window.
> >         >
> >         > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >         Should be easy to check. Run a QT, a Xulrunner, a Gtk2 and a
> >         GTK3
> >         program together (there are other toolkits, too, but this are
> >         the most
> >         common) and see how the cursor behaves.
> >
> >         Regards
> >
> >
> >  Alright, here's what I've discovered:
> >
> >  - Gtk2 (geany) workspace, Xulrunner (pencil), and Qt (pyqt example)
> >  all show the same inconsistent mouse size behavior. The theme is the
> >  same, just the size changes to the one I set.
> >  - Gtk3 (gedit), OpenGL (houdini) , the toolbars of Gtk2 apps, and the
> >  rest of Xfce, the size stays at the large default size (though,
> >  again, the theme stays the same).
> >
> >  So for whatever reason, Xfce, Gtk3, and the toolbars of Gtk2 programs
> >  either don't know about the user's size preference, or it's being
> >  overwritten somewhere. ToZ's suggestion, in order to get the theme
> >  setting to be set properly, worked great. If only the size would also
> >  work across all applications...
>
> And you do have the GTK2 and GTK3 engines installed? Here is my output
> from my Debian System (thank you very much Yves-Alexis Perez and the
> others working on XFCE for Debian!):
>
> greg at bigboy:~ [0] $ dpkg -l| grep xfce | grep engine
> ii  gtk2-engines-xfce  3.0.1-2  amd64  GTK+-2.0 theme engine for Xfce
> ii  gtk3-engines-xfce  3.0.1-2  amd64  GTK+-3.0 theme engine for Xfce
>
> Just a thought to help out. That fixed a lot of stuff for me.
>
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