Bug 337083

Summary:	sddm theme has default X cursor outside interactable items
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Harald Sitter <sitter>
Component:	Global Theme packages	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aleixpol, elvis.angelaccio
Priority:	NOR
Version:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Harald Sitter 2014-07-04 15:38:34 UTC

when a correct xcursor theme is set via the environment it is correctly used for all clickable items (user, password field, login button etc.). however for everything else the cursor is the default x X cursor (the one that is an actual X). This is inconsistent and ugly, supposedly the theme needs to explicitly set a cursor everywhere to prevent this sort of behavior.

Alternatively according to startkde the following should switch the default cursor to the left_ptr type (or that's what I read out of it anyway):
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Elvis Angelaccio 2017-09-04 14:04:45 UTC

I can't reproduce anymore after upgrading to sddm 0.15.

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2017-09-04 14:15:55 UTC

thanks for reporting back