Re: [Pan-users] can't move anything

[Duncan]

Dominique Dumont posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:42:02 +0100 as excerpted:

> On Wednesday, 3 January 2024 01:30:12 CET David Chmelik wrote:
>> > Could you try to move a header column separator when the scrollbar
>> > vanishes when you hover the separation between 2 columns ?
>> 
>> Apparently it is possible now.  I thought the mouse cursor used to
>> change.
> 
> It's supposed to change. It does change on my system with KDE or Xfce.
> 
> I guess that the cursor icon for hovering is overridden somewhere in
> your setup, or it's an Xfce bug.

Try a different (x)cursor theme.

The way they work, if one of the specific cursors is missing it'll fall 
back to a different one, worst-case, ultimately back to whatever the 
default pointer is.  It's also relatively common for some of the cursors 
in a theme to be symlinked to others as appropriate because as the 
standard developed some desktops looked for one name, some another, for 
similar functionality.

If a particular theme doesn't have whatever cursor's being called (likely 
because whoever developed it didn't run into anything actually needing 
that cursor) and it ends up falling back to the default cursor, the 
behavior would be pretty much exactly as described here -- no change from 
the default cursor to indicate directional-dragability.

So try a few different xcursor themes (which are still used on wayland 
despite the xcursor name, BTW) and see if at least some of them have a 
changing directional-drag-cursor as appropriate/expected.

If some do but other than the missing cursors you still prefer the theme 
missing theme enough to bother, try comparing a working theme against your 
bad one to see which cursor names ones are missing in the bad one and 
consider manually creating symlinks, either to other cursors in that theme 
or to those of another theme, to fill the gap.  (There's actually a way to 
configure fallbacks too, and of course it's possible to create your own 
cursors as fill-ins or to do your own entire theme, but other than an 
initial pointer to the xcursor manpage that's well out of scope for this 
post and well beyond what I've done personally.  But I do occasionally 
download new cursor themes and switch between them as the whimsy occurs, 
and have occasionally come across some incomplete/buggy ones.)

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