126037 - Mozilla doesn't use OS-provided "busy cursor" on Linux

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Martin Vollrathson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020214
BuildID:    20020214

I tried a different set of cursors for XFree86, which made me notice that the
busy cursor in Mozilla is not the one currently provided by XFree86 but a copy
of the original XFree86 busy cursor.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change your busy cursor to notice the difference.
2. Load a large page in Mozilla to make the busy cursor appear.

Actual Results:  Mozilla displays the original XFree86 cursor.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should use my modified cursor. All other apps do.

Comment 1

[timeless]

interesting

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

I believe this headache is the result of "fix" for bug 30375.

I was pleased with the system "watch" cursor myself, but some think they can't
click on anything while it's displaying. So it was decided to break NS4 parity,
and the "arrow-with-a-turd" cursor was introduced.

Personally I find the tiny "blob" hard to see at all. It would be an
acessability improvement if Mozilla honored system settings.

Comment 3

[Martin Vollrathson]

This is really annoying when you change your system cursors. All my cursors are
now white, except the busy cursor in Mozilla, which is black.

Somewhat disturbing...

Comment 4

[Martin Vollrathson]

Also, the "question" pointer is not the systems question pointer. And it bugs
me, because it's so obvious when all my other cursors are white.

Comment 5

[Mike Palumbo]

Is there a status update on this bug?  Testing Moz 1.4 and FB .61 and .7 on
Redhat 9 does give me the proper busy and help (question) cursors, even after
cursor changes.

I don't have any other installations to test this with, but this definitely is
resolved on my system.

Comment 6

[Rork]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I don't have any other installations to test this with, but this definitely is
> resolved on my system.

Using Moz 1.7, FireFox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 on Gnome (on Gentoo 2004.2)
and the bug is still there...

Comment 7

[Rork]

Please disregard comment #6. It appears that some symbolink links got messed up.
Sorry.

Comment 9

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Does this bug still occur in a recent trunk build?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 10

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

WFM on Fedora 7 using the latest trunk nightly.

Comment 11

[Sergio]

This bug has come back on Thunderbird 9.0.1 (exactly like the original description).

Comment 12

[Sergio]

To be clear. Thunderbird uses a built-in busy cursor instead of the system one.