281459 - cursor change in GNOME does not affect cursors in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Brian Toms]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

I am running Fedora Core 3 with the GNOME desktop environment.  When I changed
the cursor in GNOME, every application uses the new cursor except for Firefox
and Thunderbird.  I have heard of this occuring with the Mozilla Suite as well,
with many different cursor themes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unpack the cursor theme to ~/.icons
2. Create the directory ~/.icons/default if it does not exist
3. Create the file ~/.icons/default.theme if it does not exist.
4. Open ~/.icons/default.theme in a text editor.
5. If there is a line that reads Inherits=<some-theme>, change that to the icon
theme you want to install.  If there is no such line, add it.

Actual Results:  
All applications use the new cursors except Firefox and Thunderbird (which use
the default Bluecurve cursors.

Expected Results:  
Use the newly-installed cursor theme.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

please test on a current trunk build, as there are a lot of GTK theme issues
fixed in the Gecko 1.8 cycle.

Comment 2

[Brian Toms]

I can't figure out how to install the trunk build.  It would be really nice if
you people created RPM versions (at least for the releases).  I am currently
using Thunderbird 0.9 since that is the latest one in the Fedora Core 3 Updates
database.

Comment 3

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

I've observed the same in SUSE Linux 10.0 but there it was a X server problem.
Maybe it's the same for you. Does it still happen?

Comment 4

[Juan Márquez]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I can't figure out how to install the trunk build.  It would be really nice if
> you people created RPM versions (at least for the releases).  I am currently
> using Thunderbird 0.9 since that is the latest one in the Fedora Core 3 Updates
> database.

Use ubuntu. They got more updated packages and their packager is better than redhat's at getting and installing newer versions of the software.

Comment 5

[Aleksei Perepelkin [:chaos]]

Attachment: that html will help to test the bug

Comment 6

[Aleksei Perepelkin [:chaos]]

Just tested the bug in "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007102904 Minefield/3.0a9pre", all cursors except for progress-cursor are changed

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.3 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 8

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.3 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.