#10712 NORM 11.2.0-: wrong cursor on welcome screen

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#10712: wrong cursor on welcome screen
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           Reporter:  dsd     |       Owner:  erikos                           
               Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  11.2.0-M4                        
          Component:  sugar   |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:          |    Keywords:  wm                               
        Next_action:  code    |    Verified:  0                                
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Comment(by sascha_silbe):

 I can't reproduce this using Debian Squeeze.
 As long as the following line is in sugar(.in) and metacity gets started,
 the Sugar cursor is shown right from the start (even if I start an xterm
 instead of Sugar):

 {{{
 echo Xcursor.theme: sugar | xrdb -merge
 }}}

 Tested with sugar-jhbuild + sugar-emulator, sugar-jhbuild + ~/.xsession
 and native Debian packages + ~/.xsession.

 However, I could reproduce the issue on a Dextrose-3 build, even after
 downgrading metacity from 2.30.3 to 2.30.0 (Debian ships 2.30.1 for
 Squeeze). Since the cursor shows fine as soon as Sugar is started iff the
 above line is used, I assume that the cursor theme is found, just not
 used.

 If I add an xsetroot invocation right in front of the metacity invocation,
 the cursor switches to the Sugar cursor (xsetroot) and back to the default
 cursor (metacity).

 We should investigate why metacity behaves differently on Fedora (compared
 to Debian). Neither Debian nor Fedora apply any patches that look like
 they might affect this, so either it's an unintended side effect (could be
 checked by rebuilding both packages with no patches applied) or a bug in
 some other package (e.g. Xorg).

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