Firefox mouse pointers

senyahnoj · 11-09-2006, 05:37 AM

Background:

1. I have Firefox 2.
2. I have a pretty little set of purple mouse-pointers for my KDE 3.5 desktop.
3. When I put the mouse cursor inside the Firefox application window my pretty little cursors change to black default Firefox ones.

Questions:
i) Does anyone know how to get Firefox to use the system-wide cursor theme?
ii) Should I be spending less time making my desktop pretty and get back to work?

Thanks

David the H. · 11-09-2006, 06:13 AM

I think this is because Firefox is a gtk-based program and doesn't automatically listen to the qt-based settings.

I'm not 100% sure this will help you, but there's a package called gtk-qt-engine (at least, that's the Debian package name) that lets gtk use the qt widgets. I think it will do what you want.

Update: here's a page about unifying themes in Gentoo:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Same_lo...and_GTK_1_apps

But it's might also be that the cursor design is set by your Firefox theme, if you've installed any (I don't think the default theme sets custom cursors).

senyahnoj · 11-09-2006, 07:15 AM

Thanks very much for your reply.

I'd assumed that it wasn't a GTK thing as Gimp is using the KDE cursors, but I've just opened Dia and sure enough it's got the same cursors as Firefox.

I shall check out the gtk-engines-qt too - cheers for the Gentoo link!

stasik · 11-14-2006, 08:41 AM

a have the same problem...