Comment 10 for bug 1024482

Maybe it is an Ubuntu specific issue.

Ubuntu is well known for adding a large number of patches to a large number of applications/libraries/tools etc to better integrate these tools into the Ubuntu way of doing things. This is why it is difficult to port Ubuntu specific code to other distros.

@ swiftgeek, the cursor-name option in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf actually does nothing. lightdm-gtk-greeter does not select a cursor theme, it just uses the system default (X default or theme specified in /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme) - of course, Ubuntu may have a patch which includes this option, and that could be the cause of the issue. And yes, it does use a cursor and yes, it uses the default theme but this should not affect the desktop session, only the lightdm session. Once you login, the lightdm session is closed and a new session in your username for your chosen DE is opened. It is the environment created by the DE that should be theming the root window cursor theme for this session.

Perhaps we should be looking at things like /etc/profile.d and others that configure your DE. Could simply be an environment variable either not being set correctly or at all.

All I can confirm is that the issue does not exist for me using Arch and Xfce, which to me, indicates it is a configuration issue, nothiong else.

Cheers.