Re: Firefox and Xcursor

[adr <adr%sdf.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2026, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> KOOOOL!
>
> XCURSOR_PATH=/usr/pkg/share/icons
>
> I wrote several cursors. So can I use my cursors?

You could copy a theme you like to a local directory, change
the theme dir name for example to my_cursor_theme, edit or substitute
the cursors you like and then add the dir path to XCURSOR_PATH
and put:
Xcursor.theme: my_cursor_theme
in .Xrsources (don't forget to add xrdb ~/.Xresources to .xinitrc, for example)
Or use XCURSOR_THEME=my_cursor_theme in your environment.

Of course if you are using some desktop environment, you'll have
to use that desktop's settings for cursor themes.

Note that I haven't make or substitue any cursor theme, so I can't
give you any advice for that, but I'm sure there are tons of
resources on internet for that.

I don't use desktop environments, in fact as time goes by things
go worst for my taste.

The only reason I dug into this is that I was getting frustrated
not been sure if some text was a link, or clicking on a link by
accident.

New users using the default netbsd gui, the ctwm window manager,
will suffer this issue after installing firefox.

I also noticed that after launching the wm the XCURSOR_PATH
environment variable was empty, so be sure to export that variable
before executing firefox.

Again, this is a mess for new users using the default GUI.

Regards.
adr