On 2024-06-11, Stuart Henderson <stu.lists@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 03:07:24PM -0600, Andy Bradford wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if this is expected behavior or not, but it seems that
>>> after upgrading to OpenBSD 7.5 the mouse cursor no longer changes from
>>> an arrow pointer to a hand when I hover over links in Firefox. It does
>>> work for some other programs though. Also, moving the mouse over other
>>> elements (like text entry) does work. It's just moving over links that
>>> no longer visibly changes the mouse cursor.
>>>
>>> Is this a problem isolated to Firefox? Is anyone aware of a change
>>> that would cause this and more to the point, how to recover the
>>> functionality?
>
> It's isolated to firefox, afaik most likely (maybe only likely?)
> to occur if you don't use a "desktop environment", it's due to
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1871863
> (see also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1876366#c15)
> and it's a flipping nuisance.
>
> On 2024-06-10, Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org> wrote:
>> iirc it can be worked around by setting in about:config:
>>
>> widget.gtk.legacy-cursors.enabled to true
>
> That is the hack they added that is supposed to undo this change.
> It doesn't do anything for me though.
Oh, huh, it didn't help after just restarting firefox, but did after
a reboot? Very odd.
>
> If you're not using a desktop environment, you can run xsettingsd
> with this in .xsettingsd to set a cursor theme:
>
> Gtk/CursorThemeName "Adwaita"
>
> However then in some setups you'll get stupidly large pointers in
> Gtk based software.
>
>
>
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