[Solved] Mouse theme not changing in desktop on system boot

[pemartins]

On boot the mouse theme remains the distro default DMZ (Black), even if changed in a previous session to DMZ (White). On this printscreen you can see the mouse pointer is DMZ (Black) and not matching the chosen DMZ (White):



Also in applications like xfce4-panel, xfce-terminal and xfce4-taskmanager the mouse pointer remains in the DMZ (Black) theme.

Nevertheless in Firefox the mouse pointer theme changes to the defined DMZ (White).

It is necessary to go to Settings > Mouse and Touchpad > Theme, change to another theme and then back to the desired DMZ (White) so it becomes active everywhere.

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System:    Host: pemartins-X55U Kernel: 4.15.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 
           Distro: MX-17.1_x64 Horizon March 14  2018 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X55U v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X55U v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: X55U.423 
           date: 08/06/2013 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: AMD E2-1800 APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP 
           L2 cache: 512 KiB 
           Speed: 1697 MHz min/max: 850/1700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1697 2: 896 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Wrestler [Radeon HD 7340] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: radeon resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PALM (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.15.0-1-amd64 LLVM 3.9.1) 
           v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Wrestler HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-1-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet driver: alx 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 13.94 GiB (3.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500LM012 HN-M500MBB size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 18.94 GiB used: 13.94 GiB (73.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda10 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 64 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3200 
Info:      Processes: 168 Uptime: 15m Memory: 3.45 GiB used: 1.19 GiB (34.4%) 
           Client: Unknown Client: init inxi: 3.0.25 

[fehlix]

On boot the mouse theme remains the distro default DMZ (Black), even if changed in a previous session to DMZ (White). On this printscreen you can see the mouse pointer is DMZ (Black) and not matching the chosen DMZ (White):

Would removing saved sessions within Settings -> Session and Startup -> Session -> Clear saved sessions,
make any difference?

[Eadwine Rose]

If it still won't stick:

Open terminal, su to root, and enter

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update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

and enter the number of the theme you want, then logout and login to activate

[pemartins]

Thank you both very much for the help.

Yep clearing the saved sessions seems to have solved it, I rebooted two times after and the correct mouse theme DMZ (White) was now automatically loaded for my session in each time.

Thank you all!

[pemartins]

Oh and nevertheless @Eadwine Rose I also did your solution and now I have the DMZ (White) cursor also in the login screen.

Thank you!

[Eadwine Rose]

You're welcome :)