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Support Xcursor in Xlib

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ivan Kozlov <kanichos <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#42346: closed (Re: bug#42346: Support Xcursor in Xlib)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 11:50:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#42346: Support Xcursor in Xlib

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 42346-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ivan Kozlov <kanichos <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#42346: Support Xcursor in Xlib
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 13:49:47 +0200

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Hi,

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:27:40 +0200
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello Ivan,
> 
> > How to reproduce:
> > 1. Start XTerm.
> > 2. Notice that the mouse cursor looks totally different from everything
> > else. XTerm uses several mouse cursors: one for the text area, one for
> > scrollbar, one for the menus, and they all stand out like a sore thumb.
> > 3. Put libxcursor into LD_LIBRARY_PATH and start XTerm again.
> > 4. Notice that the Xcursor theme is honoured.  
> 
> This should be fixed by fb21bc23233374354abf3ad3bc830fb02ccbbc83. Could
> you please confirm that it works?

Nope, it wasn't.

But I fixed the fix in bug# 54680. Thanks!

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From: Ivan Kozlov <kanichos <at> yandex.ru>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Support Xcursor in Xlib
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 20:43:44 +0300

libX11 contains support for runtime loading of libXcursor. Without this support, programs that use Xlib’s mouse cursor routines, such as XTerm, do not follow the mouse cursor theme as determined by the Xcursor.theme resource and XCURSOR_THEME environment variable. This is in fact very noticeable and annoying.

How to reproduce:
1. Start XTerm.
2. Notice that the mouse cursor looks totally different from everything else. XTerm uses several mouse cursors: one for the text area, one for scrollbar, one for the menus, and they all stand out like a sore thumb.
3. Put libxcursor into LD_LIBRARY_PATH and start XTerm again.
4. Notice that the Xcursor theme is honoured.

This probably cannot be resolved by referencing libXcursor in libX11 because that would introduce a circular dependency.

The best solution I can think of is merging the libxcursor package into libx11. It is essentially a plugin.

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