Firefox cursor -- too small

[don922]

I am currently using Puppy 528.7 with jwm and firefox 34.0.5.

I have changed the mouse cursor to a larger cursor in all areas of the program, except firefox. I cannot figure out how to change or increase the size of the firefox cursor. It is just too darn small. Mozilla with "Edit>preferences", "about:config" and "Firefox Help" just bewilders me.

Can someone give an easy to understand method of changing or enlarging the firefox cursor?

[watchdog]

Do you restart firefox when you change the cursor theme? In tahr 6.0 pcur works fine.

[don922]

Do you restart firefox when you change the cursor theme? In tahr 6.0 pcur works fine.

Can you be more basic and more specific. I am using Polar Cursor from Menu>Desktop>Desktop Settings>Pcur cursor selector which has Cursor_themes-1-Lucid which was downloaded from the PPM. This cursor is being used everywhere but it doesn't replace the tiny black cursor arrow in firefox. This miserable cursor is called ORIGINAL THEME by the Pcur cursor selector.

[watchdog]

Now I am in my lupu 5.28 frugal install. It works. Install:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... es-1-1.pet

Then type pcur in console and choose whitelarge cursor theme, for example. Firefox restart required.

[don922]

I have deleted Cursor_themes-1-Lucid which I used to supply cursors to Pcur. According to your instructions I replaced it with cursor_themes-1-1. In the console I used Pcur to select the "whitelarge" cursor according to your instructions. I restarted the program and started firefox. The whitelarge cursor was used everywhere, except, in firefox. Firefox continued to use the the ORIGINAL THEME cursor. Basically, nothing changed.

[watchdog]

Try in a live. I think there is something wrong in your install or it's a bug. I used lupu 5.28_005 and firefox 31.0. In tahr pcur works and I use firefox 34.0. How did you install firefox? I am using the manual install in /usr/lib.

[Semme]

Yep, no problem here. Sounds like a new or updated add-on?

Doubting I'll get a response(?), does the issue persist in safe mode?

[OscarTalks]

Just wanted to say that I have observed this cursor phenomenon as well. The installed theme appears OK everywhere but when you hover it over the "real estate" of a Firefox or SeaMonkey window the cursor reverts back to the default. It seems to happen in a frugal install when the browser is installed outside of pupsave in /mnt/home in a "portable" configuration which is what I usually do. I need to double check in the case of a browser that is part of the main Puppy .sfs but I think in this case the cursor may remain as per the selected theme. I did wonder what was causing this but have not as yet figured it out.

[don922]

I have firefox installed with firefox-portable-0.8.2. This is what is causing the problem. I installed the same version of firefox in puppy528.6 and didn't have the problem. I like firefox-portable but I don't like the small cursor problem.

Doubting I'll get a response(?), does the issue persist in safe mode?

Yes, the problem persists in the Safe Mode.

[Semme]

I'm gonna guess it's tied to one of the manifest files and perhaps one or more "component" items.

Really, shouldn't be a stretch to figure out.

[watchdog]

Copy /root/.icons in /path-to/firefox-portable-0.8.2.

[Semme]

There's an idea. Is this what worked for you WD?

[OscarTalks]

Copy /root/.icons in /path-to/firefox-portable-0.8.2.

Copying /root/.icons has worked for me although it needs to be copied into the new portable "home" directory which I created when I did my manual portable installation.

So I have /mnt/home/seamonkey-portable
Inside that I have the unpacked seamonkey program directory /mnt/home/seamonkey-portable/seamonkey
Also I have created the directory /mnt/home/seamonkey-portable/slacko
My launcher script (/usr/bin/seamonkey) sets this as HOME
The copied .icons directory goes in there along with the other stuff that gets created when seamonkey runs.

I also have another sub-directory for the profile which is also defined by the launcher script.

[don922]

Copy /root/.icons in /path-to/firefox-portable-0.8.2.

I copied /root/.icons to /mnt/home/firefox-portable/firefox-portable-0.8.2. The problem I had is now fixed!

Thank you watchdog and everybody that contributed to this fix.

[watchdog]

Why /root/.icons can't be copied in firefox-portable when using usb sticks fat32 formatted? This workaround works only for the main hd linux formatted. Is there a way to copy /root/.icons in a usb stick fat32 formatted?

[mikeb]

Perhaps daft plus daft = daft..

Anyway why is a crappy cursor from the last millennium unix still being the default in 2015 in puppy??

mike

[watchdog]

I solved resizing the fat32 partition in the usb stick, creating a ext2 partition in the freed space and moving firefox-portable-0.8.2 in the linux partition.

[mostly_lurking]

Why /root/.icons can't be copied in firefox-portable when using usb sticks fat32 formatted?

On my Puppy, /root/.icons contains only a symlink to /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer/ROX. (I don't have any custom cursors installed.) If yours contains links too, that explains why it doesn't work - FAT32 doesn't support symlinks.

[cimarron]

Copy /root/.icons in /path-to/firefox-portable-0.8.2.

Copying /root/.icons has worked for me although it needs to be copied into the new portable "home" directory ...

Yes, this works for me when I use your Tor browser sfs (which redefines the "home" directory). The cursor was reverting to the default one only in Tor browser. But when I put a symlink to /root/.icons in /root/my-applications/tor-browser/Browser, the new cursor theme is used.

So maybe a symlink is all that is needed?